Re: Agent Forwarding Question for the list

Justin Alcorn wrote:


I could be wrong, but I beleve ForwardAgent just ALLOWS agent forwarding.


I believe that it enables it, and setting it in the ssh_config is the equivalent of -A. I have tried it both ways and the machine persists in asking for a password. The password request comes so quickly that I suspect it does not have time to go to the other server, and the connection is being intercepted by PAM, though I have not been able to find anyone else having such a problem (who knows if anyone else even uses FC5 this way).

I am presently pursuing this line of inquiry for openssh, researching PAM, and trying futilely to recompile ssh-3.2.9-1 for FC5 64-bit. One of them will return a solution eventually.

Thanks for your help

Jason Powers

You stil need to ssh -A user@server1

Usage: ssh [options] host [command]
Options:
-l user Log in using this user name.
-n Redirect input from /dev/null.
-F config Config file (default: ~/.ssh/config).
-A Enable authentication agent forwarding.
-a Disable authentication agent forwarding (default).