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Feature #251

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document sudo with keeping SSH key

Added by Florian Effenberger about 10 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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In order to keep your SSH agent forwarding when becoming root, this rather weird command line works

sudo su -l -c "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK; bash"

It should be documented somewhere

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Updated by Guilhem Moulin over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

Closing this as wontfix, IMHO agent forwarding is madness security-wise (so is X forwarding) and we shouldn't encourage its use. In fact it's been mostly disabled through ssh_config 3 years ago.

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