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Manaburner
Super Contributor
4 years ago

Improvements for handling SSH keys using 1P as SSH agent

Recently I played around more with SSH keys and I'm currently storing them inside 1Password for Windows. I'm using the Windows ssh client to connect to target servers as well as putty. The problem...
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signe
New Contributor
4 years ago

There's one more possible solution that I've been looking at for the last few days (since starting to use 1P as an ssh-agent):

Implement the SSH agent restrictions added in OpenSSH 8.9 at the beginning of this year.

https://lwn.net/Articles/880458/
https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html

All it would need (from a user's perspective) is an optional Host/Host Chain setting (for use with ProxyJump/etc.) in the SSH key data.

It does, however, need an updated sshd that you're connecting to for the protocol extensions to function.