Implement AgentClient::connect_uds on Windows

[Irvingouj]

I tried to run basic examples but hit a problem with

 let mut agent = russh_keys::agent::client::AgentClient::connect_env().await.unwrap();

where connect_env returns only error on non-unix platform. Does this library supposed to work under platform otherthan linux?

[Eugeny]

russh-keys AgentClient class only supports SSH agent connections via UNIX sockets, so it doesn't work on Windows. The rest of russh works on Windows.

[Eugeny]

(if you're learning russh through examples, it's a better idea to start with remote_shell_call which is newer as opposed to client.rs which was inherited from thrussh)

[wez]

so it doesn't work on Windows.

FWIW, UNIX domain sockets have worked on windows for several years now, there's no reason not to support it here

[Eugeny]

Yup but IIRC openssh agent uses a named pipe on windows instead

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so it doesn't work on Windows.

FWIW, UNIX domain sockets have worked on windows for several years nowhttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/, there's no reason not to support it here

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[wez]

There are other ssh agents that run on windows that use unix domain sockets

[eminence]

I was able to get this working on Windows with this small change to russh-keys:

#[cfg(windows)]
impl AgentClient<tokio::net::windows::named_pipe::NamedPipeClient> {
    pub async fn connect_windows() -> Result<Self, Error> {
        let stream = tokio::net::windows::named_pipe::ClientOptions::new()
            .open(r"\\.\pipe\openssh-ssh-agent")?;
        Ok(AgentClient {
            stream,
            buf: CryptoVec::new(),
        })
    }
}

Then agent.request_identities() returns a non-empty list.

Except it seems to not be returning my ECDSA keys:

[2023-09-22T19:01:19Z INFO  russh_keys::agent::client] Unsupported key type: Ok("ecdsa-sha2-nistp256")

[Eugeny]

@eminence russh doesn't have support for ECDSA keys yet - only RSA and Ed25519