mirror of
https://git.tartarus.org/simon/putty.git
synced 2025-03-16 12:03:03 -05:00
c52108234b
This is much more like ssh-agent than the Windows version is - it sets SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID as its means of being found by other processes, rather than Windows Pageant's approach of establishing itself in a well-known location. But the actual agent code is the same as Windows Pageant. For the moment, this is an experimental utility and I don't expect it to be useful to many people; its immediate use to me is that it provides a way to test and debug the agent code on Unix, and also to use the agent interface as a convenient way to exercise public key functions I want to debug. And of course it means I can be constantly using and testing my own code, on whatever platform I happen to be using. In the further future, I have a list of possible features I might add to it, but I don't know which ones I'll decide are worthwhile. One feature I've already put in is a wider range of lifetime management options than ssh-agent: the -X mode causes Pageant to make a connection to your X display, and automatically terminate when that connection closes, so that it has the same lifetime as your X session without having to do the cumbersome trick of exec()ing the subsequent session-management process.