8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David Tomaschik
fa6a878487 Fix SSH agent forwarding clobbered by local agent in shenv (#14)
* Fix SSH agent forwarding clobbered by local agent in shenv

ssh/rc saves the raw forwarded socket in SSH_REMOTE_AUTH_SOCK before
rewriting SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the stable symlink. shenv was ignoring that
variable, so it saw SSH_AUTH_SOCK as "our link" and fell through to the
systemd lookup, which could overwrite the symlink with a local agent
socket and silently drop the forwarded one.

Now shenv checks SSH_REMOTE_AUTH_SOCK first, giving forwarded sockets
priority over any local agent.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01RhXaFzxJA5D2BcGcz18ipA

* Fix shenv clobbering forwarded SSH socket with local agent in tmux

ssh/rc env changes (including SSH_REMOTE_AUTH_SOCK) are lost because
ssh/rc runs as a sshd child process, not the user's shell. The shell
always receives SSH_AUTH_SOCK set to the raw forwarded socket path.

Fresh SSH login worked fine (step 1 catches the raw socket). The bug
was in tmux new windows: SSH_AUTH_SOCK there is our stable symlink, so
step 1 fails, then steps 2/3 look up the system agent and overwrite the
symlink that ssh/rc just set to the forwarded socket.

Fix: only run the system agent lookup when the stable symlink is already
broken. A valid symlink means ssh/rc (or a previous shenv run) already
set it correctly; don't clobber it.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01RhXaFzxJA5D2BcGcz18ipA

* Remove pointless exports from ssh/rc, add process-model comment

ssh/rc runs as a sshd child process so exports never reach the user's
shell. SSH_REMOTE_AUTH_SOCK was set and exported but never used (a
leftover from a prior failed fix attempt). SSH_AUTH_SOCK was reassigned
to the symlink path and exported, also to no effect. Remove both.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01RhXaFzxJA5D2BcGcz18ipA

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 19:20:43 -07:00
David Tomaschik
1804357162 Update skel 2026-04-14 10:27:17 -07:00
David Tomaschik
00696b23fa Updates 2026-02-20 17:15:39 -08:00
David Tomaschik
243da55c86 Update sshrc 2026-01-13 09:25:15 -08:00
David Tomaschik
e6e66b0d05 Handle Xauth in ssh/rc. 2021-01-21 22:37:36 -08:00
David Tomaschik
04d4ab4d25 Improve remote SSH agent 2020-11-06 09:35:45 -08:00
David Tomaschik
5e498f9bcd Change test 2020-07-13 16:26:21 -07:00
David Tomaschik
a5dc656656 Add a symlink for SSH_AUTH_SOCK remotely. 2019-06-07 10:42:10 -07:00