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Created October 8, 2014 20:22
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"Tunneling" an ssh agent connection through into an lxc container (for bootstrapping)
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while :; do socat UNIX:$SSH_AUTH_SOCK EXEC:"lxc-attach -n $CONTAINER_NAME -- /usr/bin/socat STDIN UNIX-LISTEN\:/agent-sock"; done
# After entering the container the usual way using lxc-attach (from a separate host shell), set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable to "/agent-sock".
# Needs socat both on the host and in the container.
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