On May 18, 2005, Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Sure. But you weren't expecting to share an agent between
separate ssh
logins, were you?
That would be quite useful. I often leave GNU screen sessions behind,
whose SSH agent sockets are removed when I disconnect, and then, when
I reconnect, all I have to do to be able to ssh into other boxes again
is to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the newly-created agent. With separate
namespaces, there's just no way to get to that agent from the running
screen session.
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