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Notes for a Rewrite

ckssh-agent/ckssh-add/ckssh-??? Usage

This is the underlying program called by ckset that does all the heavy lifting.

It's written in Python, and it may or may not want to use the Paramiko library for some SSH agent operations. (Currently the operations, such as getting a list of loaded keys from an agent, look simple enough that either calling ssh-add or just writing the minimal code to query the agent directly will be enough.)

ckssh Usage

For options, one idea is to have ckssh set up a new ssh_config file (in /run/user/1765/ckssh/ssh_config/COMPARTMENT/HOST) which includes its configuration at the top and includes ~/.ssh/config after that (via the ssh_config Include directive or simply by copying it into the file). But I'm not sure how much (if any) advantage this offers over simply adding -o options to the ssh command that it runs.

ssh Usage

I'm worried about people typing ssh when they meant ckssh and forwarding from agents with keys that shouldn't be available on the remote. I think this is solved via disabling forwarding for all (or most) hosts by default, and enabling it only when ckssh is used. Maybe we want a lint program to check that things are configured this way?