I am using MacOS.
I was able to use ssh with id_rsa public key authentication and do something in remote server with "ForwardAgent yes".
But then I setup my new machine, I regenerate keys, copied over to remote server, it doesn't work. I can still authenticate into the server successfully, just that I could not see the behavior of ForwardAgent. the path of the config file is correct, content exactly the same.
After few tests, found out that I should have passphrase for the ssh key pairs, so that the "ForwardAgent yes" would work as expected.
I could not find this requirement for ForwardAgent usage on the internet after few google search. Please redirect me to the documentation, in case any of you found it.
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I just encountered the same scenario and problem ... thank you for posting this solution!
ReplyDeleteSame problem here, f***ck, thanks a lot!
ReplyDeleteGood article on github about ForwardAgent https://help.github.com/articles/using-ssh-agent-forwarding#troubleshooting
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