How to manually supply passphrase to autossh, preferably on login

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I want to run a bash script (as root) that among other things establishes reverse SSH tunnel using autossh. The SSH key has a passphrase.



  1. Ideally I would like to have to login as root in terminal and the passphrase would be retrieved from a keyring (the computer has Gnome), or something like this, and supplied to autossh (if needs be I can set SSH passphrase and the root password to be the same).


  2. If #1 is absolutely impossible I can do two things - (a) login and (b) run ssh-agent /bin/bash and then provide the passphrase ssh-add.


However even manual input of the passphrase as mentioned in #2 doesn't work.
If I run ssh-agent/ssh-add (as mentioned above), SSH itself works:
ssh -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
But:
autossh -M 7777 -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
doesn't work.



How can I troubleshoot #2 and then ideally implement also #1?







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    I want to run a bash script (as root) that among other things establishes reverse SSH tunnel using autossh. The SSH key has a passphrase.



    1. Ideally I would like to have to login as root in terminal and the passphrase would be retrieved from a keyring (the computer has Gnome), or something like this, and supplied to autossh (if needs be I can set SSH passphrase and the root password to be the same).


    2. If #1 is absolutely impossible I can do two things - (a) login and (b) run ssh-agent /bin/bash and then provide the passphrase ssh-add.


    However even manual input of the passphrase as mentioned in #2 doesn't work.
    If I run ssh-agent/ssh-add (as mentioned above), SSH itself works:
    ssh -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
    But:
    autossh -M 7777 -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
    doesn't work.



    How can I troubleshoot #2 and then ideally implement also #1?







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      I want to run a bash script (as root) that among other things establishes reverse SSH tunnel using autossh. The SSH key has a passphrase.



      1. Ideally I would like to have to login as root in terminal and the passphrase would be retrieved from a keyring (the computer has Gnome), or something like this, and supplied to autossh (if needs be I can set SSH passphrase and the root password to be the same).


      2. If #1 is absolutely impossible I can do two things - (a) login and (b) run ssh-agent /bin/bash and then provide the passphrase ssh-add.


      However even manual input of the passphrase as mentioned in #2 doesn't work.
      If I run ssh-agent/ssh-add (as mentioned above), SSH itself works:
      ssh -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
      But:
      autossh -M 7777 -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
      doesn't work.



      How can I troubleshoot #2 and then ideally implement also #1?







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      I want to run a bash script (as root) that among other things establishes reverse SSH tunnel using autossh. The SSH key has a passphrase.



      1. Ideally I would like to have to login as root in terminal and the passphrase would be retrieved from a keyring (the computer has Gnome), or something like this, and supplied to autossh (if needs be I can set SSH passphrase and the root password to be the same).


      2. If #1 is absolutely impossible I can do two things - (a) login and (b) run ssh-agent /bin/bash and then provide the passphrase ssh-add.


      However even manual input of the passphrase as mentioned in #2 doesn't work.
      If I run ssh-agent/ssh-add (as mentioned above), SSH itself works:
      ssh -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
      But:
      autossh -M 7777 -f -N -T -R 8888:localhost:22 -p 9999 tunnel@example.org
      doesn't work.



      How can I troubleshoot #2 and then ideally implement also #1?









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