Question: Auth with SSH Agent

Can you provide an example of authentication with an SSH agent?

I’m having trouble getting it working, persistently getting:

Connection :: connect
Connection :: error :: Error: Authentication failure. Available authentication methods: undefined
Connection :: close

I’m providing the path to the SSH Agent socket, and other details:

c.connect({
  host: 'some-server.com',
  port: 22,
  username: 'me',
  agent: "/path/to/agent/socket",
});

Platform is OSX (perhaps this isn’t supported?) node.js 0.8.18

Any suggestions/help would be appreciated!

[aleksfes]

mscdex, kuleszaj, thanks!

I wanted to use agent forwarding but every time got error: { [Error: Authentication failure. Available authentication methods: publickey,password] level: ‘authentication’, partial: false }

This work for me:

var sshAuthSocket = process.env.SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
var conn = new Connection();
conn.connect({
  host: 'my-host',
  username: 'my-username',
  agent: sshAuthSocket
});

[kuleszaj]

I found the problem.

I was not properly initializing the SSH agent from within tmux. I forgot that tmux is detached from the normal user-space, and so some access (e.g. SSH agent) needs to be re-initialized from within tmux.

Thank you very much for your suggestions – they led me to digging into what ultimately ended up being the answer.