Re: ssh agent-forwarding was (RE: [nsp] remote shell / remote exec)

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdz@csh.rit.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 19:18:04 EST


On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:01:49AM +1000, Andrew Fort wrote:

> This reminds me,
>
> Any of the Cisco folk out there know if we'll be able to use SSH agent
> forwarding on the routers in a future software release?
>
> e.g. Store the admin's RSA public key in the configuration related to the
> particular username involved, or store the key in a file on a router
> accessible filesystem and have a 'use file at filesystem path X as a key to
> username fred' command in the config...

This isn't SSH agent forwarding. This is RSA authentication. You can use RSA
authentication in conjunction with an SSH agent on the client side, but that
doesn't require any support from the server.

-- 
 - mdz



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