Re: Agent Forwarding Question for the list

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:39:57PM -0400, Jason Powers wrote:
This is the part I assumed I had configured correctly after reading the
manual, though it does not specify if I do or do not also have to
activate X11 forwarding to just get agent forwarding to work, so I did
not include the x11 directives.

You don't need them; so it's a mystery. I think your next steps are
to run ssh with -A to see if that works, and then to run sshd with -d
and ssh with -v to see why the agent isn't being used. Something's
amis.

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