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).