Entering SSH passphrase once in a KDE Pulse session

If you want KDE to remember your SSH key’s passphrase for your whole desktop session you can create a ~/.config/autostart/ssh-add.desktop file like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=ssh-add
Comment=Adds my private key to my session.
Exec=/usr/bin/konsole -e 'ssh-add /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa'

Making SSH client use line buffered stream

So I found out about stdbuf. To get it:

# apt-get install coreutils

If you want your ssh client to use line-buffered streams use -t -t.

So I ended up with:

# su -c "stdbuf -oL ssh -t -t /usr/bin/tail -f /var/input.log | stdbuf -oL tr -c '\\11\\12\\15\\40-\\176" myuser \
  | tee -a /tmp/input.log \
  | grep --line-buffered -v "...ignore..." \
  >> /tmp/output.log

Holy command-line Batman!