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troubleshooting SSH agent forwarding with doctl compute ssh <droplet-id> --ssh-agent-forwarding

Posted on January 29, 2025

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:

https://asciinema.org/a/R7a4S3w7dd3qfeL4unpSPw6ik

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