Bug 2435 - allow to pass socket to the agent over stdin
Summary: allow to pass socket to the agent over stdin
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ssh-agent (show other bugs)
Version: 6.9p1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P5 enhancement
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Reported: 2015-07-24 06:08 AEST by Igor Bukanov
Modified: 2015-07-24 06:08 AEST (History)
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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.