Bug 2435

Summary:	allow to pass socket to the agent over stdin
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Igor Bukanov <igor>
Component:	ssh-agent	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5
Version:	6.9p1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description Igor Bukanov 2015-07-24 06:08:47 AEST

Currently ssh-agent opens and closes its SSH_AUTH_SOCK itself. It would be nice to have an option to pass the socket to the agent over stdin. This will permit using socket activation with the agent or create a socket outside the agent mount space.