Using two agents

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Sat May 30 22:34:21 AEST 2015


On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Kasper Dupont
<kasperd at kdxdx.23.may.2015.kasperd.net> wrote:
> As far as I can tell when the ssh command uses an agent to
> authenticate to a server and then forwards an agent to that
> server, it will always use the same agent for both purposes.
>
> Has there been any attempt to make it possible for the ssh
> command to use two different agents, such that I can use one
> agent to authenticate and then forward a different agent to
> the server?

That sounds really, really awkward, and would create a real
"provenance" problem for the agent being accessed on the other side.

What problem are you actually trying to solve?


More information about the openssh-unix-dev mailing list