Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Can ssh-add work on the remote socket file? I expect that it will just work<tm>. The local socket is just a socket, and the protocol[1] message SSH_AGENT_ADD_KEY is the same. > Is such an operation advisable? That's up to you. ssh-add decrypts the private key locally where invoked and transfers the key in a form immediately usable to the agent. Once the agent has the key, it's not really possible to force the agent to remove it. //Peter [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-miller-ssh-agent-02 _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev