ssh-agent and protocol 2 ...

[primus]

Mon Dec 25 20:19:05 GMT 2000

Greetings.

I noticed that in OpenSSH_2.2.0,  DSA keys were
allowed to be added to ssh-agent,  however the
ability for allowing ForwardAgent does not yet
seem in place for protocol-2.

I've noticed that when using protocol-2, no socket
is created in /tmp/ssh-*/,  and consequently
SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not being set.  Hence the ability
to ssh to another machine (using protocol-1 or
protocol-2) without being asked for a password is
lost.

Is this something currently under development,  or
is it just a completely bad idea?  If the latter,
what are the technical reasons?


Cheers.

-- 
primus