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| author | djm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org> | 2019-12-21 02:19:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2019-12-21 13:22:07 +1100 |
| commit | 40be78f503277bd91c958fa25ea9ef918a2ffd3d (patch) | |
| tree | b17303fad21f97437b44cf3264a03abfd503ebdf /ssh_config.5 | |
| parent | 416f15372bfb5be1709a0ad1d00ef5d8ebfb9e0e (diff) | |
| download | openssh-git-40be78f503277bd91c958fa25ea9ef918a2ffd3d.tar.gz | |
upstream: Allow forwarding a different agent socket to the path
specified by $SSH_AUTH_SOCK, by extending the existing ForwardAgent option to
accepting an explicit path or the name of an environment variable in addition
to yes/no.
Patch by Eric Chiang, manpage by me; ok markus@
OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 98f2ed80bf34ea54d8b2ddd19ac14ebbf40e9265
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh_config.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | ssh_config.5 | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ssh_config.5 b/ssh_config.5 index dc7a2143..186e0761 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.311 2019/12/19 15:09:30 naddy Exp $ -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 19 2019 $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.312 2019/12/21 02:19:13 djm Exp $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 21 2019 $ .Dt SSH_CONFIG 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -669,11 +669,14 @@ and .It Cm ForwardAgent Specifies whether the connection to the authentication agent (if any) will be forwarded to the remote machine. -The argument must be -.Cm yes -or +The argument may be +.Cm yes , .Cm no -(the default). +(the default), +an explicit path to an agent socket or the name of an environment variable +(beginning with +.Sq $ ) +in which to find the path. .Pp Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host |