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Lamnk
Asked: 2011-06-08 17:23:16 +0800 CST

How to enable key forwarding with ssh-agent?

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I've used the ssh-agent from oh-my-zsh to manage my SSH key. So far, so good, i only have to type the passphrase for my private key once when I start my shell and public key authentication works great.

The problem is however that key forwarding doesn't work. There are 2 servers A & B which I can use public key to login. When I ssh into A then from there ssh into B, I must provide my password, which should not be the case.

A is a CentOS 5.6 box, B is an Ubuntu 11.04 box. I have this on my local .ssh/config:

Host *
    ForwardAgent yes

OpenSSH on A is standard openssh 4.3 package provided by CentOS. I also enable ForwardAgent for ssh client on A, but forwarding still doesn't work.

ssh forwarding ssh-agent public-key

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Make sure AllowAgentForwarding is set to yes on the servers (sshd_config).

    My guess is you are missing that.

    Also forwarding is only on openssh 5.1+ So make sure you are running a valid version

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