After wasting a number of hours kludging my way through a (very poor) implementation of agent forwarding. I discovered that Chris Andrews took the time to do it right less than two months ago. With tests even. http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/net-ssh-devel/2007-March/000060.html Chris'' gem works like a champ for me, and I''d rather not share my attempt. Any chance of adding the patch and making an official release? Thanks, Corey P.S. I''ve taken the liberty of CCing Jamis since he''s the only developer listed on rubyforge, but I don''t see him listed as a subscriber to the mailing lists. Sorry if you get 4 copies of this message Jamis. ;)