Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.7.0
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None
Description
This is needed for OpenSSH compatibility. OpenSSH documents three constraints:
- confirm - the agent prompts the user before each key use of a key added with this option.
- lifetime - in seconds; the agent automatically removes the key when the time expires.
- generic extensions, of which there is one:
- sk-provider - path to a middleware library needed for FIDO keys
The IETF draft also has constraints for keys being added, but of course those are different, and their draft looks incomplete in those sections.
Apache MINA sshd should provide interfaces that enable users to implement adding keys to an agent with arbitrary constraints, and should provide a default implementation compatible with OpenSSH.