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Use default SSH_AUTH_SOCK on Windows

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The ssh-agent available in Windows as a service listens on \\\\.\\pipe\\openssh-ssh-agent by default. In the Dev Containers extension I use this as the default value for SSH_AUTH_SOCK when that variable is not set. This makes ssh work with the ssh-agent without the need to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK by the user. I suggest to do the same in Remote-SSH.

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