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What I am missing is why ever use ssh agent, including any re-enforced variations, if ProxyJump has none of the ssh agent issues and has little to no other disadvantages?


1. Agent was designed to solve a larger problem; ProxyJump to solve a specialised subset of that problem.

2. The issues and disadvantages claimed with Agent Forwarding don't actually exist anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22753590


ssh-agent is very useful, it's agent forwarding that is better handled with proxyjump. And my guess would be that forwarding came first and proxyjump only later.


ProxyJump doesn't help with the use cases cited in the tl;dr^Wintroduction.




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