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The idea behind this change is to add support for different "ssh-agents" being able to run at the same time. It does not change the current behaviour of the ssh-agent (which will set SSH_AUTH_SOCK just for itself). Neither does it change the behaviour of SSH_AGENT_PID (which still supports only one pid). The new implementation will go through the list of sockets (which are separated by a

...reads: http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2015-September/034381.html and http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2015-September/034406.html (the same patch is attached to the bug) In the second mail thread, there is a suggestion about adding a new environment variable (SSH_AUTH_SOCK_FALLBACKS) that also looks like a valid approach. Please, let me know your preferences and I can come up with whatever is better for openssh community. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.