How to sign a remote repository, i.e. forward agent

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi all (please cc me on any reply),

this question has come up here in the past but I've never found *any* reply so 
far.

My problem is relatively simple. We provide a (Debian) repository for our 
colleagues as well as ourselves and would like to sign it (for the experts: 
reprepro's export option). Of course one could either copy around the secret 
keyring and start the agent remotely or type the passphrase many times, but 
straight from the FAQ this is not a good idea(TM).

Now the notorious question: Does anyone know how to forward the agent's socket 
to the remote machine? I've briefly tried socat (remote unix socket to tcp 
port, ssh tunnel of this port and then socat again to link the forwarded port 
to the existing socket) but so far to no avail.

Anyone with an idea how to accomplish this?

Thanks a lot in advance

Carsten

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