SYNOPSIS

This agent is a replacement for the old ssh-agent. This package includes both a "server" and "client" scripts for use on the command line. One big difference between this project and macavage's is that this project does not depend on the archaic ssh-agent and this project allows selection of different (stronger) hash algorithms for signing data.

DETAILS

This ssh-agent is currently not compatible with the original ssh-agent as it communicates over a unix socket but does not use the same binary protocol and instead uses line delimited json.

This code is still being developed significantly. In particular the protocol could change.

USAGE

Use the supplied scripts, e.g., node-ssh-add, node-ssh-list node-ssh-sign.

  % node-ssh-agent  & # start the agent
listening on path /tmp/sshagent.sock

  % node-ssh-list
[]

  % node-ssh-add
Enter pass phrase for /Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa:
{ type: 'addKeyResponse',
  key: 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx',
  fingerprint: 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx',
  message: 'key added' }

  % node-ssh-list
[ 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' ]

  % node-ssh-sign  # use -k to pass the key id to use
supply key id to use

  % echo -ne "this is a test" | node-ssh-sign -k xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
SsZCyNzGSUU1opoDTIg+7Wg5X/nu3b8knn/coJSXRLzvrdo/RhPM/qVRNqBXV8nFvIyHGdP4cGjqcNU8sps/9wl7Ej+It1rILzxNPqo/rHI0ZfbsNArOIqGG3fE54yap48zgUZkwgg3GqCckyFp55dOiB4s+aEQ5rzDnowe2w/0Kd6eGGC+1duHDQLbNF0drPoxYYmq0cHNFSORaEmigczKZzUkjA2dQ3z4HRzDo4qdjBcHRVblI9CfRqv+V+K2Jma66C972DJdrMPqjrb8iOaJzxrHZPQv+L7NOWkNqJM6bMY5ChQxn39vNaQ26RgD0DLuA9ebIFF4Hc8fF7O2JrA==

CONFIGURATION

This module uses rc for configuration. Therefore it will read settings from a file called ~/.sshagentrc.

Currently the only configuration options of interest would be the unix socket path and maybe the default signing algorithm algorithm.