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SSH agent forwarding is great. It allows you to ssh from one server to | |
another all the while using the ssh-agent running on your local | |
workstation. The benefit is you don't need to generate ssh key pairs | |
on the servers you are connecting to in order to hop around. | |
When you ssh to a remote machine the remote machine talks to your | |
local ssh-agent through the socket referenced by the SSH_AUTH_SOCK | |
environment variable. | |
So you the remote server you can do something like: |