Agent forwarding with DSA keys?

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Sep 26 06:45:36 EST 2000


On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:07:09AM -0700, Paul Allen wrote:
> Note that my problem is not with ssh-add.  The agent knows about
> my DSA key and ssh uses the stashed key to log me in on another
> machine without asking for my pass-phrase.  The problem is that
> the connection to the agent is not forwarded if I use my DSA key,
> while it is forwarded if I use my RSA key.
> 
> So, I come back to the question, "Does agent forwarding work
> with DSA keys?"  If it doesn't work yet, that's fine.  But if
> someone has it working, I'd sure like to hear about it.

agent forwaring does work with DSA and RSA,
but it does not work if you use protocol version 2,
since it's not implemented.

just ssh to localhost with protocol 1 and execute 'ssh-add -l'





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