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A comment on SSH Agent Explained.

Re:SSH Agent Explained by volodymyrs on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:57AM (#23244049)
What I am missing is why ever use ssh agent, including any re-enforced variations, if ProxyJump has none of the ssh agent issues and has little to no other disadvantages?
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Re:SSH Agent Explained by pritambaral on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:49AM (#23246241)
1. Agent was designed to solve a larger problem; ProxyJump to solve a specialised subset of that problem.

2. The issues and disadvantages claimed with Agent Forwarding don't actually exist anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22753590

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Re:SSH Agent Explained by ptman on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:52AM (#23244390)
ssh-agent is very useful, it's agent forwarding that is better handled with proxyjump. And my guess would be that forwarding came first and proxyjump only later.
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Re:SSH Agent Explained by ncmncm on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:54AM (#23244403)
ProxyJump doesn't help with the use cases cited in the tl;dr^Wintroduction.
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