Allow forwarding of SSH & GPG agents in VSCode extension.

[richbayliss]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

When using the VSCode extension to connect to my workspace, I would like to have my SSH and GPG agents forwarded so that I have access to my signing keys for commits and SSH keys for accessing resources.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

The extension should offer some commands to enable the forwarding of the agents.

Describe alternatives you've considered

This is possible in the stock VSCode Remote SSH extension, which relies on the user's SSH configuration file. My only alternative is to create a GPG subkey and then have this provided as a variable through GitPod, but this is cumbersome and messy when I have a YubiKey attached to my machine ready to be accessed.

[woss]

there is a discussion about similar thing here #666 hope that helps

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[sagor999]

This is related to: #666

[florisvdg]

(Posting this here, because the other issue is more about GPG in general)

Here's what I'm running into when SSH'ing into a Gitpod workspace with agent forwarding enabled:

1. In https://gitpod.io/workspaces, click Connect via SSH:

2. SSH into the Gitpod workspace by copying the command shown in the Gitpod UI, but with -A (agent forwarding):

ssh -A <workspace-name>#<autogenerated-access-token>@<workspace-name>.ssh.ws-eu45.gitpod.io

3. Successfully logged in. Confirm that $SSH_AUTH_SOCK indeed got set correctly:

gitpod ~ $ ls -l $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
srwxr-xr-x 1 gitpod gitpod 0 May 19 20:16 /tmp/ssh-XXXXBaaiFJ/agent.945

4. Try to communicate to the agent:

gitpod ~ $ ssh-add -l
error fetching identities: communication with agent failed

Is this a bug, known issue, something on my end? Or just unsupported as of now?

[sagor999]

@iQQBot since I think you worked on SSH agent, can you provide some answers to above?

[iQQBot]

SSH Gateway is support ssh-agent-forward (wait this PR deploy) @florisvdg

[iQQBot]

@florisvdg SSH Gateway is support ssh-agent-forward now, PR is deployed

[woss]

For newcomers to this issue, I just want to add that this solution does not work in the browser