Bug 85925 - RFE: SSH auth agent
Summary: RFE: SSH auth agent
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Spice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RFE (general) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Spice Bug List
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Reported: 2014-11-05 17:13 UTC by Marc-Andre Lureau
Modified: 2018-06-03 10:25 UTC (History)
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Description Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-11-05 17:13:03 UTC
Forward ssh keys to the remote VM. It would be \o/

Thanks to SSH_AUTH_SOCK, it is possible to forward your credentials. The protocol is described in http://api.libssh.org/rfc/PROTOCOL.agent, so a new channel may just forward all this to the client, which may in turn implement an agent or forward it to an existing agent?
Comment 1 Fabiano Fidêncio 2015-09-10 22:51:46 UTC
(In reply to Marc-Andre Lureau from comment #0)
> Forward ssh keys to the remote VM. It would be \o/
> 
> Thanks to SSH_AUTH_SOCK, it is possible to forward your credentials. The
> protocol is described in http://api.libssh.org/rfc/PROTOCOL.agent, so a new
> channel may just forward all this to the client, which may in turn implement
> an agent or forward it to an existing agent?

A prototype has been done, but the integration with the DE is still far away to be ready.
Further discussions about the DE integration can be followed here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-keyring-list/2015-September/msg00000.html

Also, this is one suggestion to solve this problem:
13:21 <  fidencio> elmarco: one option would be to have something like ssh-add --pipe /path/to/another_agent
13:22 <  fidencio> so, it would be expanding the ssh-agent protocol and having a DE agnostic solution
13:22 <  fidencio> it could be implemented in the gnome-keyring and in the openssh ...
13:22 <  fidencio> elmarco: does it still sound bad to you?

Links for further discussions and patches for libssh will be added here later.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-06-03 10:25:59 UTC
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