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An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding

Subject: An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:20:55 -0800
Hello all,

I periocially publish Tech Tips on my website on various issues in
computerdom, and this week I released one which is particularly on target
for this list: a detailed discussion of SSH agent forwarding.

I had a customer who simply would not get past using password auth, even
on an internal network with lots of machines, so I wrote this Tip to give
them the big picture on just what they were missing. They, and others,
have reported it helpful, and I hope those here do as well:

        Unixwiz.net Tech Tip: An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding
        http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html

Some time ago I also release a Tip which is more of a HOWTO on PuTTY
setup, which might be good for end users to consult:

        Unixwiz.net Tech Tip: Secure Linux/UNIX access with PuTTY and OpenSSH
        http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/putty-openssh.html

Regards,
Steve

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