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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon tiwe-de

Allow the filter agent's bind address to be specified

Open atdt opened this issue 11 years ago • 3 comments

Add an additional command-line option (-a / --bind-address) that can be used to specify an alternate path for the filter agent's UNIX domain socket.

atdt avatar Oct 08 '14 22:10 atdt

I like your idea.

IMO the option should also (or instead) have --bind but not -a; the latter might be confusing with the other options.

Your patch for the bash completion is incomplete, it should complete paths after --bind-address.

tiwe-de avatar Oct 08 '14 22:10 tiwe-de

@tiwe-de Thanks for the feedback! I updated the PR to address both comments.

atdt avatar Oct 09 '14 01:10 atdt

The original OpenSSH ssh-agent uses -a, so utilizing the same short name might be nice.

Either way, it would be nice if a set path ($TMPDIR, ~/.ssh or something similar) would be used instead of cwd. In my case the agent is started by default from .profile, and this means that I get a bunch of agent.$PID files in my home directory, which is not nice.

ssh-agent has $TMPDIR/ssh-XXXXXXXXXX/agent.. Maybe have $TMPDIR/ssh-XXXXXXXXXX/agent-filter. as the default?

martinpaljak avatar Dec 18 '16 14:12 martinpaljak