Blink: ssh-agent forwarding not work

[kecinzer]

I can't figure out how to make ssh-agent forwarding. I'm connected with key to my server and I want to jump to another one using the same key, but it not work.

[giarc]

I just ran into this issue and it seems you have to start the ssh-agent, open a new blink tab, ssh-add and then ssh -A . The blink tab with ssh-agent running needs to remain open, and MUST be done every time.

Certainly not ideal.

[kecinzer]

Its not working for me. Do I need something extra?

[giarc]

Have you used ssh agent forwarding before? its the same using blink, with the only wrinkle specific to blink shell being that you MUST run ssh-agent manually as it's not running by default:

In one blink tab (leave this open and running):
ssh-agent

open a new blink tab and add your key(s) to the ssh agent:

ssh-add yourkeyname

To confirm the key you want forwarded has been added to the ssh agent ( capital 'L' and lowercase 'l' would both work for this step, but _are_ different flags) :

ssh-add -L

Then ssh to your host with the 'forward my keys for this connection from the ssh agent' flag (capital 'A' as lowercase 'a' disables the option)

ssh -A yourhost

FYI: mosh doesn't support key forwarding... so if you're expecting mosh to work just like ssh in this regard, it won't.

[kecinzer]

You are my life saver. This works great! Thank you for the tutorial.
It will be great if it works out of the box, I hope Blink will do it in the future.

[luizribeiro]

What would it take for us to make this work out of the box?

Would the ideal way of doing this be a setting under config for ssh-agent forwarding, which would spin up the ssh-agent on the background and automatically add the -A option on any ssh connection?

[xslim]

Just installed latest blink from AppStore, and ssh -A is not there :(

[yury]

@xslim you have to run ssh-agent command in separate tab at this moment. We will improve that in next version.
So in one tab run ssh-agent command, then in another tab you can use ssh-add command to add keys and finally you can use ssh -A

[xslim]

Yes I did all that in beginning, and it did not work. After restarting the app it does work. Magic. :)