Bug#294148: wishlist: forwarding of general unix-domain sockets
Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3
Severity: wishlist
ssh as of today forwards X11 and ssh-agent sockets just fine,
so there is no technical reason why not to allow other unix domain sockets
to be forwarded.
intended use would be to forward a gpg-agent socket, very similar
to how ssh-agent works. gpg-agent lives on the box with the private key,
and services requests from gpg clients. gpg-agent does not listen
on a network socket for very much the same reasons as ssh-agent.
at the moment gpg-agent is available only in the development versions
of gnugp, so this issue is not very urgent and
for now i'm working around this limitation using a horrible mess
involving socat (unix-domain socket -- socat -- tcp port forward -- socat -- socket), but i'd very much like to get rid of that...
regards
az
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cluon 2.4.28 #1 Thu Dec 9 12:52:20 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT
Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii adduser 3.47 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libssl0.9.6 0.9.6c-2.woody.7 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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