"Tunneling" an ssh agent connection through into an lxc container (for bootstrapping)

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while :; do socat UNIX:$SSH_AUTH_SOCK EXEC:"lxc-attach -n $CONTAINER_NAME -- /usr/bin/socat STDIN UNIX-LISTEN\:/agent-sock"; done

# After entering the container the usual way using lxc-attach (from a separate host shell), set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable to "/agent-sock".

# Needs socat both on the host and in the container.