Bug 480

Summary:	extend the -l or -L option to mention the ssh-agent's pid
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Ralf Hauser <hauser>
Component:	ssh-add	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-add

Description Ralf Hauser 2003-01-30 21:15:49 AEDT

I have multiple ssh-agent's running, but I don't know which one is accessed by
my ssh-add command. If with -*extra*l, I could find out, this would be helpful!

Comment 1 Markus Friedl 2003-02-02 00:11:06 AEDT

this does not belong to the -L or -l option

Comment 2 Ralf Hauser 2003-02-03 04:12:50 AEDT

So what is your suggestion - add a new option?

Comment 3 Ralf Hauser 2003-02-19 03:02:40 AEDT

Or another option would be to have ssh-agent complain if it detects other
instances of itself already running under the same userID?

Comment 4 Markus Friedl 2003-02-19 03:18:38 AEDT

perhaps have ssh-add -v print out the socket name.

Comment 5 Ralf Hauser 2003-02-19 03:48:22 AEDT

sure, would be great if this additional option could be added...

Comment 6 Damien Miller 2003-02-24 13:25:58 AEDT

I don't think that making "ssh-add -v" print the socket name would help much -
you can do that yourself with "echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK"

Comment 7 Darren Tucker 2005-02-09 20:39:25 AEDT

I don't think there's much to be done for this; as djm points out, figuring out
which agent ssh-add will access is simply a matter of echoing $SSH_AUTH_SOCK (or
$SSH_AGENT_PID for that matter).

Comment 8 Darren Tucker 2006-10-07 11:35:42 AEST

Change all RESOLVED bug to CLOSED with the exception of the ones fixed post-4.4.