a pure js **replacement** for ssh-agent
npm install node-ssh-agentThis 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.
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.
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==
`
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`.