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clarify that SSH_AUTH_SOCK should only be set locally, not on the remote server

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Michael Vorburger ⛑️ 2019-09-16 23:59:50 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/run/user/$UID/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh"
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye > /dev/null
```
On some systems, you may need to use the following instead:
On modern systems, you can use the following instead, as `gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket` will automatically set `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` to the correct value; and is therefore typically better than hard-coding to `run/user/$UID/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh`, if available:
```console
export GPG_TTY="$(tty)"
@ -1600,6 +1600,9 @@ export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)
gpgconf --launch gpg-agent
```
Note that `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` normally only needs to be set on the *local* laptop (workstation), where the YubiKey is plugged in. On the *remote* server that we SSH into, `ssh` will automatically set `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` to something like `/tmp/ssh-mXzCzYT2Np/agent.7541` when we connect. We therefore do **NOT** manually set `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` on the server. (Doing so would break [SSH Agent Forwarding](#remote-machines-agent-forwarding).)
## Copy public key
**Note** It is *not* necessary to import the corresponding GPG public key in order to use SSH.
@ -1848,7 +1851,9 @@ RemoteForward <remote ssh socket path> /tmp/S.weasel-pageant
#### Remote host configuration
Add the following to the shell rc file:
You may have to add the following to the shell rc file (on Linux, this is only required on the laptop/workstation
where the YubiKey is plugged in, and **NOT** on the remote host server that you connect to; in fact at least on
some Linux distributions, changing SSH_AUTH_SOCK on the server breaks agent forwarding):
```
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)