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diff --git a/paramiko/agent.py b/paramiko/agent.py index 73fa1f82..1cc9075f 100644 --- a/paramiko/agent.py +++ b/paramiko/agent.py @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ class AgentSSH: no SSH agent was running (or it couldn't be contacted), an empty list will be returned. + This method performs no IO, just returns the list of keys retreived + when the connection was made. + :return: a tuple of `.AgentKey` objects representing keys available on the SSH agent @@ -277,6 +280,17 @@ class AgentClientProxy: class AgentServerProxy(AgentSSH): """ + Allows an SSH server to access a forwarded agent. + + This also creates a unix domain socket on the system to allow external + programs to also access the agent. For this reason, you probably only want + to create one of these. + + :meth:`connect` must be called before it is usable. This will also load the + list of keys the agent contains. You must also call :meth:`close` in + order to clean up the unix socket and the thread that maintains it. + (:class:`contextlib.closing` might be helpful to you.) + :param .Transport t: Transport used for SSH Agent communication forwarding :raises: `.SSHException` -- mostly if we lost the agent |