PrivateKeyCommand config idea

Bernd Eckenfels ecki at zusammenkunft.net
Tue Mar 12 12:05:01 AEDT 2024


BTW not for your usecase with the decryption, but if people want to dynamically create/provision short lived
keys, they could use „match host * exec gen-key.sh %s“ config to run a program before each connection.
However it can’t stdout the key material, but what it could do is update a temporary Idendity file or
push it short-lived with ssh-add to the running (standard) agent.

openssh at tr.id.au wrote on 11. Mar 2024 22:15 (GMT +01:00):

> Hmm, okay, I just realized the protocol has a full specification at
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-miller-ssh-agent. Would it be
> possible to get that protocol added to the list of manuals which typically
> get installed with the OpenSSH package?


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