Hello! I’m having trouble getting doctl compute ssh <droplet-id> --ssh-agent-forwarding to work. I’m trying to forward my connection from my local ssh-agent to a droplet, so that I can use my GitHub credentials on that droplet, but it doesn’t succeed. If I try plain old SSH with ssh -A root@<droplet-ip-address> then it works fine. What sorts of things could contribute to this problem? Thanks! P.S. Here’s a screencast illustrating it:
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Hey David!
First off, that asciinema is awesome! Super helpful for understanding the issue!
I think that, since SSH agent forwarding works fine with ssh -A but not with doctl compute ssh --ssh-agent-forwarding, this looks like it might be a bug in doctl rather than a misconfiguration on your end.
I’d recommend opening an issue on the doctl GitHub repo so the DigitalOcean team can investigate:
🔗 https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/issues/
Make sure to include the asciinema video in the issue as well! Once you submit the issue, feel free to share it here as well and I can try to forward it internally!
- Bobby
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