Support SSH IdentityAgent config for DevContainers

[skrysm]

The DevContainers extension already supports forwarding the ssh agent via the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.

It would be great if the extension would also support the IdentityAgent config (in ~/.ssh/config) which serves the same purpose as SSH_AUTH_SOCK.

Motivation: I'm using 1Password as my ssh agent. On macOS, it registers itself as ssh agent via the IdentityAgent config instead of SSH_AUTH_SOCK.

Thus, out of the box, my ssh keys are not forwarded to dev containers. Instead I have to export SSH_AUTH_SOCK before launching vscode - which works, but it's not as seamless as it could be.

Side note: The 1Password ssh agent works without problems on Windows.

[skrysm]

Apparently, setting environment variables for GUI apps is quite the pain on macOS. (Judging from all the StackOverflow questions, it seems that Apple changes/breaks how this works with "every" new macOS version). So, this makes this issue even more important, as there is no easy workaround (that survives a reboot).

[PeterHindes]

This is a pretty big problem. Has me looking at other IDEs for work.

[chrmarti]

VS Code reads the env variables from your default shell: You can export SSH_AUTH_SOCK from your ~/.zshrc (depending on which shell is your default) on the Mac and that will be picked up after restarting VS Code.

Reading IdentityAgent from the ~/.ssh/config might be difficult because that can be per host.

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[skrysm]

@chrmarti

Reading IdentityAgent from the ~/.ssh/config might be difficult because that can be per host.

If it helps I could limit the feature request to just the global IdentityAgent setting.

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[dklotz]

Apparently, setting environment variables for GUI apps is quite the pain on macOS. [...] So, this makes this issue even more important, as there is no easy workaround (that survives a reboot).

@skrysmanski 1Password recommends this way to set it globally, but as @chrmarti mentioned, setting it in your shell should be enough. It was enough for me, after I set SSH_AUTH_SOCK in my .zshrc (and restarted VSCode), the agent just works for me from inside the devcontainer (even if VSCode was not launched from the terminal).