On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:33:04PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Tue 2018-01-09 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. > > try storing the output of "ssh-add -L" in a file (instead of "ssh-add > -l"), and pass the name of that file in IdentityFile. it's a two-stage > process instead of a single stage, but it should work fine. I had to clean up my .ssh/config file a bit to make this work, but that was my own fault. That approach works for me, so I'm happy to retract my request. Thanks for the help! > --dkg --Greg _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
