PowerShell / PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
Support SSH_AUTH_SOCK Unix Domain Sockets for Windows
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Description
gpg and gpg-agent support opening a Unix Domain Socket in Windows for use with SSH. However, this appears to fail as OpenSSH for Windows does not support Unix Domain Sockets when configured in SSH_AUTH_SOCK.
There are ways to bridge this using third-party programs such as https://github.com/benpye/wsl-ssh-pageant and configuring gpg and gpg-agent to run in pageant mode and using the aforementioned program to open a named pipe that can work with OpenSSH for Windows when set to SSH_AUTH_SOCK.
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Research direction
The issue names no source files or tests, so first inspect how Win32 OpenSSH reads SSH_AUTH_SOCK on Windows and how its Unix-domain-socket and named-pipe handling relate. Done means supporting the stated SSH_AUTH_SOCK use case for Windows OpenSSH with gpg or gpg-agent, backed by appropriate tests.
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Assessment
- Domain
- networking, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100