Bug 2381

Summary:

foreground mode for ssh-agent

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

Igor Bukanov <igor>

Component:

ssh-agent

Assignee:

Damien Miller <djm>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

enhancement

CC:

djm, dtucker

Priority:

Version:

6.8p1

Hardware:

Other

OS:

Linux

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

2360

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Add ssh-agent -D flag for foreground without debug	dtucker: ok+

Description Igor Bukanov 2015-04-15 21:27:50 AEST

It would be nice to have an option to run ssh-agent in foreground without forking. This will simplify ssh-agent integration with process managers or containers when it is expected that service is not forking.

The current -d flag is not suitable for that as it also activates the debug log.

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2015-04-24 13:53:21 AEST

Created attachment 2602 [details]
Add ssh-agent -D flag for foreground without debug

Sounds reasonable. This adds a -D option (similar to sshd) that puts ssh-agent in the foreground but does not enable debugging. It also bumps the debug level for -d to DEBUG3.

It still prints the shell commands to get the environment to stdout,
since users might want to capture these for sourcing into shell initialisation.

$ ./ssh-agent -D
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-evSXau5OLQvF/agent.11610; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
echo Agent pid 11610;

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2015-04-24 15:27:00 AEST

applied - this will be in openssh-6.9

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2016-08-02 10:41:01 AEST

Close all resolved bugs after 7.3p1 release