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...ponent: sshd Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org Reporter: igor at mir2.org Currently with the HostKeyAgent option sshd checks on startup if it can connect to the agent socket, https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/ebacd377769ac07d1bf3c75169644336056b7060/sshd.c#L1773 This introduces an artificial dependency between the agent process and sshd and require the agent running when sshd starts. Moreover, as this check do not verify if the the agent has the keys for the server, the usability as a health check of such query is rather low. It would be nice to either r...