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 rcfor configuration. Therefore it will read settings from a file called~/.sshagentrc.

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

SYNOPSIS

USAGE

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==