Forward local private SSH keys to Codespaces #63187
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Originally posted at microsoft/vscode-remote-release#8816 |
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@craiglpeters if you have a chance, could you check this out? Thanks! |
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Codespaces does not support SSH agent forwarding. We recommend that you do not tightly couple your local environment with the remote as this can be brittle. Instead, we recommend that you use Codespaces secrets to make your SSH keys available within your Codespaces so that you can use them with any client (SSH, VS Code, JetBrains, etc). |
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Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. |
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Hi @craiglpeters, I use this authentication only for development. I would prefer to have my local dev keys stay on my machine, instead of sharing them with anyone who has access to the codespace, for security reasons. Can you please reconsider this approach? Thank you |
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Also, given the docs I'm not even sure Codespace Secrets can provide SSH keys, since they're only an environment variable. |
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When I login into a Github codespace with vscode, I find that my SSH keys (which I have installed in my local agent) are not being forwarded to the Codespace. On the other hand, if I use vscode-remote to a server via the Remote-SSH extension, the keys are forwarded correctly.
Forwarding private SSH keys would be useful to be able to access dependencies hosted in private Github repos (among other things).
Why my SSH keys are not forwarded also to the Codespaces?
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