Re: Requesting agent forwarding

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 18 April 2012 15:37:32 you wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> I'm investigating libssh for a project and one of the requirements is
> that I'm able to request SSH agent forwarding on an SSH connection. It
> appears based on the RFC[1] that this is done by sending a channel
> request. I don't see if this is done or exposed anywhere in libssh.
>
> Is this possible now?

it is possilble to implement it, but we don't have a simple API for it.

What you are doing on the client side is to connect to the socket of the unix 
socket from the agent and "forward" the request over a ssh channel. The server 
sets up a unix socket and set the evironment variable for the unix socket so 
the clients on the server know where the agent is.

Cheers,

	-- andreas

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