On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 15:58:00 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > The IdentityFile config (or -i argument) lets you insist on (or prioritize, > at least) a particular key file on disk. The key can be retrieved from > ssh-agent without decrypting the file on disk, but it must be found at the > specified path. I have a use case in which keys are added to ssh-agent on a > forwarded connection, but are not present on disk locally. There is > currently no way to refer to a key in ssh-agent that is not also sitting on > local disk. I propose either a new config (which I'm calling > IdentityFingerprint) or extending the existing IdentityFile to accept the > fingerprint (e.g. output from ssh-add -l: SHA256:...) of a key and use that > if it's found in ssh-agent. > > Is this a reasonable feature? Am I missing a way in which this is already > supported? > Do I understand correctly that what you are trying to do is specify what key to use on a remote system from an forwarded agent socket? If that is what you are trying to do, you can do already. You just have to point IdentityFile to a copy of the public key on the remote system. -- Iain Morgan _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
