SSH Agent integration

[hugoduncan]

Is there any interest in providing ssh agent integration, similar to that provided by Mina? This requires some sort of native library to access the unix socket (Mina use the apache runtime I believe), so would probably need to be made optional.

Any thoughts?

[jclouds]

+1 we'd really like this to work

[shikhar]

Agreed, would be neat to have. https://github.com/mcfunley/juds is also an option for unix domain sockets.

[hugoduncan]

This looks promising https://github.com/ymnk/jsch-agent-proxy

[ymnk]

I have gotten a pull request related to this issue,

https://github.com/ymnk/jsch-agent-proxy/pull/7

but I don't have enough time to review it.
It is helpful if somebody on the sshj community check it out.

At the glance, it seems to me that it is only for the authentication,
and there is not a method to push private keys to ssh-agent. Is it OK?

[ymnk]

FYI, the contribution by liff ymnk/jsch-agent-proxy#7 has been merged to jsch-agent-proxy,
so sshj will be able to run with ssh-agent by using it. Refer to its example, https://github.com/ymnk/jsch-agent-proxy/blob/master/examples/src/main/java/com/jcraft/agentproxy/examples/SshjWithAgentProxy.java

[hierynomus]

This seems to be solved? Correct, if so, closing it soon...

[dkocher]

I can confirm that the combination with the jsch-agent-proxy is working. I propose to close this issue.

[hierynomus]

Closing :)