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"SSH agent" is a confusing term to use here, because it usually stands for a daemon that caches authentication tokens.
by kazinator 2y ago
"SSH agent" is a confusing term to use here, because it usually stands for a daemon that caches authentication tokens.
- rednafi 2y agoThe "VSCode" before "SSH Agent" does the disambiguation fairly well.
- bqmjjx0kac 2y agoI, for one, was actually confused.
- akvadrako 2y agoOnly of you already know what the VSCode agent does and then you don't need the article.
- CGamesPlay 2y agoAgreed, because VSCode does not provide an SSH Agent but does communicate with your local one (their own version of ForwardAgent, complete with the security implications that carries). And the way it does that breaks a popular macOS SSH agent: https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive/issues/543 https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive/issues/543
- epistasis 2y agoOh shoot, secretive is one of the few ways I knew of to keep track of each time an SSH key was actually used to auth something. I love using Agent Forwarding but the idea of anybody with root being able to arbitrarily auth stuff gave me a (perhaps unreasonable) feeling of insecurity.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoI love secretive.