SSH Agent with default keys

[carloscabanero]

Thanks again, I flagged the conversations from my side so we will do the proper changes to help, etc...

I was gonna ask you about how you would prefer to load keys as well given your number of hosts. Blink has a special agent that is basically an agent per host and a default agent. Usually, the default agent holds all the keys you want to forward to all hosts, like the usual ssh-agent, but this is known to be troublesome.

If you create the host in Blink, then you can define what specific keys you want to forward there, so each host can have different access. This has to be done at the GUI as there is no standard ssh flag at the moment. You can also specify different "constraints" like Asking you every time before use, or once per connection, etc...

Our idea here is that most people just forward keys to one or two hosts, and if they need to forward to more than that they probably want to have very specific control for when this happens (the manual way). So far, the per-host agent has really served us well and removed the need for the default agent. But does this work for you? Or would you rather have a more generic way to assign keys to group of hosts in the agent or the default agent?

Originally posted by @carloscabanero in #1890

I have only two keys: one for connecting to hosts and one for communicating with git repos. Basically I need to be able to forward the 'git' key to any host I ssh to.

I guess the default agent would work for me. Another option is to provide a way to initialise each shell session automatically with something like .bash_profile, so that I can ssh-add my keys there.

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