# Agent Forwarding Adding and removing keys to the agent: ``` waja at Brotschneidemaschine in ~ $ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" Agent pid 7715 waja at Brotschneidemaschine in ~ $ ssh-add -L The agent has no identities. waja at Brotschneidemaschine in ~ $ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Identity added: /Users/waja/.ssh/id_rsa (waja@Brotschneidemaschine.local) waja at Brotschneidemaschine in ~ $ ssh-add -L ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQCfovU+pdwsO4ubyG8kldmtFwVcfNIbJX8Qvi+4rWKmkcEx7xdz27o+CrCXyu3eSbw8q/BVNZImwbs3C4dCBZ+o7ZtHmJGYzyrIOkY1AD1kdf0tbH3boEqoL46xOx8zGIUWCcuJd+bzMw/ub/5Qf+yW6a00h4szFiREyM6k2y+0gF21ewoSKPZp+XTFFXfOoGAllJ1rhQq+PScUHHu81Ft9bl18e0SWKRJd/EOiI+2/GAb/jtYo0lxyIk1GrmZDA80Tew7Mv636zWfXUaL1Tr4Y8Wxmeetr97MLcVcY9hMZmQlcmurDqeIJdWn1IAr8IRieLJZPiMjt09LZ2EAd/TmI2lbfy3c+013qmc4YoOhXDlRgoS5qeQr/zupP1/0ATzG37pGtkomO1zz9WBafFy5ewzIU1YUArV+/PNWbVdrnIEOKmHF/YM/ZCA5JwFp7M/8FOHZrM6KvCwcnmtHOzU+0y7eHYejUHTBOIrk9/SfP37IFEELaNrEJdDokQBXpT38= waja@Brotschneidemaschine.local waja at Brotschneidemaschine in ~ $ tail -2 .ssh/config Host * ForwardAgent yes waja at Brotschneidemaschine in ~ $ ssh-add -d ~/.ssh/id_rsa Identity removed: /Users/waja/.ssh/id_rsa RSA (waja@Brotschneidemaschine.local) ``` Identities are not permanent, Desktop-Managers reads keys from `basename -s .pub ~/.ssh/*.pub`. ``` waja in 🌐 jumphost in ~ ✦ ❯ kill -9 7715 waja in 🌐 jumphost in ~ ✦ ❯ ssh-add -L Error connecting to agent: Connection refused waja in 🌐 jumphost in ~ ✦ ❯ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" Agent pid 7795 waja in 🌐 jumphost in ~ ✦ ❯ ssh-add -L The agent has no identities. ``` ## SSH Agent forwarding is nice but... [You should only add servers you trust and that you intend to use with agent forwarding.](https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/using-ssh-agent-forwarding) [Why using SSH agent-forwarding is a Bad Idea](https://medium.com/kernel-space/why-using-ssh-agent-forwarding-is-a-bad-idea-6cbdff31bbee) # SSH ProxyCommand / ProxyJump ``` ~ via ☕ via  ✦ ❯ tail -7 .ssh/config Host 192.168.66.* # https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-ssh-proxycommand-passing-through-one-host-gateway-server/ # https://goteleport.com/blog/ssh-proxyjump-ssh-proxycommand/ # https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_Jump_Hosts #ProxyJump user1@10.42.5.6:22 #ProxyCommand ssh -q -W %h:%p user1@10.42.5.6 ProxyCommand ssh -o 'ForwardAgent yes' 10.42.5.66 'ssh-add && nc %h %p' ``` # SSH Multiplexing ``` ~ via ☕ via  ✦ ❯ tail -8 .ssh/config Host * # https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-reuse-openssh-connection/ # https://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/12/11/using-ssh-multiplexing/ # https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Multiplexing ControlPath ~/.ssh/controlmasters/%r@%h:%p ControlMaster auto ControlPersist yes MaxSessions 10 ``` https://www.maketecheasier.com/kill-unresponsive-ssh-session/