[launchd-dev] Obtaining the value of SSH_AUTH_SOCK in an entry?

[Chris Cleeland]

Dave,

Thanks for the quick reply!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Dave Zarzycki <zarzycki at apple.com> wrote:
>  Mac OS X Leopard, as shipped, automatically manages 'ssh-agent' and
>  the corresponding environmental variable. One can verify this like so:
>
>  $ env | grep SSH_AUTH
>  SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-01KBeh/Listeners
>  $

Right.  I like that!

>  …and by reviewing /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-
>  agent.plist. You can also verify which processes have inherited the
>  SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable with:
>
>  ps axe

Mmmm...okay.

According to empirical evidence, though, the ssh spawned by launchd
isn't inheriting SSH_AUTH_SOCK

 8298   ??  Ss     0:00.00 /usr/libexec/launchproxy /usr/bin/ssh -v -nNT -i /Use
rs/taoadmin/.ssh/svn.ociweb.com -L 22000:svn.ociweb.com:22 -l cleeland ssh.ociwe
b.com PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin __LAUNCHD_FD=47 TMPDIR=/var/folders/Z+/
Z+cmZ48wHRWaiAQNuFalnk+++TI/-Tmp-/ SHELL=/bin/bash HOME=/Users/taoadmin USER=tao
admin LOGNAME=taoadmin
 8299   ??  S      0:00.02 /usr/bin/ssh -v -nNT -i /Users/taoadmin/.ssh/svn.ociw
eb.com -L 22000:svn.ociweb.com:22 -l cleeland ssh.ociweb.com PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:
/usr/sbin:/sbin TMPDIR=/var/folders/Z+/Z+cmZ48wHRWaiAQNuFalnk+++TI/-Tmp-/ SHELL=
/bin/bash HOME=/Users/taoadmin USER=taoadmin LOGNAME=taoadmin __CF_USER_TEXT_ENC
ODING=0x1F5:0:0

Is there a way I can tell it that I want SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be inherited?

-cj