openssh unix dev - Jun 2003 - ssh-agent protocol

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right place for this question, but here goes:

I'm building an application for Mac OS X to manage the ssh keychain.
I'm planning on building a seperate socket where ssh can connect to, read
data from it, and forward it to the wrapped ssh-agent if neccesary.

I want to notify the user when ssh is trying to request keys when there
aren't any keys added yet. I suppose I can strace ssh / ssh-agent to figure
out the communcation syntax, but is it documentated somewhere ?
And more importantly, will the syntax ever change ?

Kind Regards,

Bart Matthaei

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Bart Matthaei                 bart at dreamflow.nl 

There's no sex in struct sockaddr_in ..

no need to strace, since you have the source code.

the basic protocol is documented in RFC.nroff

it's very easy to understand from ssh-agent.c

extension are in ssh-agent.c only, w/o documentation.

authfd.[ch] contain the client side of the protocol.