On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Jordan Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have ForwardAgent setup on my local machine so that initiating an SSH > session to host1, then to host2 from host1, works just fine without > providing a password. I'm assuming that Fabric does not use > ForwardAgent? This would be fine if I were at least prompted for a > password during the operation. Hi Jordan, I can't answer 100% conclusively, but I don't *think* Fabric currently honors ForwardAgent (or, for that matter, anything else in .ssh/config*). I've just trawled all over the place looking to see if anyone's gotten Paramiko (our SSH substrate) doing this and didn't find anything. Ditto for Twisted Conch (a potential replacement). It does look like Ruby's Net-SSH library supports agent forwarding, but that doesn't exactly help us any over here :( I'm guessing that, assuming I'm not missing something, the dev(s) on that lib had more need for the feature (or time to implement it) than the Paramiko/Twisted devs. If anyone can chime in on this with more info or a "you're wrong, Jeff, and here's why", that'd be great, otherwise you're probably out of luck until someone patches one of those libs. (If you have the time and want to specifically ping e.g. the Paramiko list about this, feel free.) Best, Jeff * Parsing .ssh/config, in general, is possible with both libs, so I would like to eventually work in HostName/User support at the very least. But ForwardAgent is likely to be a bigger fish to fry, and (IMHO) more of an edge case, so I'm not sure it's something I have time to tackle myself, even if it is something we could do at our level instead of needing to be in Paramiko itself. _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
