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how to make it so much easier
All of these solutions are over-kill. ssh-agent already offers a fine solution. I run the following script in my .bash_profile:
how to make it so much easier AND SECURE :)
The method above is great, except that it probably creates the socket with 755 permissions. The pipe should be readable only by you. I use this script to implement your suggestion. I know it seems a little fancy; I got the basic idea from a hint somewhere, and was already using the script. When I made the path of the socket file invariant, I also added the three umask commands to protect the socket from prying eyes.
how to make it so much easier
The hint as posted did not work for me on Panther. Three things
were missing.. backticks around the ssh-agent, -s on the ssh-agent, and -S instead of -p in the tests.
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