Sharing Host SSH Keys with Embedded Platforms: Difference between revisions

SSH agent forwarding can be used to securely use your host's SSH keys on an embedded platform without physically copying the keys to the platform. This is particularly useful for operations that require SSH access, such as git operations with repositories on GitHub or GitLab.

Your host keys are only valid in the current SSH session and are not stored anywhere.

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=== Steps to Forward SSH Keys ===

This flag tells SSH to forward the SSH agent connection.

If you use an SSH configuration file for storing common hosts such as ''~/.ssh/config'', you can add the option "'''ForwardAgent yes'''" to enable the Agent Forwarding without modifying your <code>ssh <host></code> command. For example:  

ssh nx

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