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Agent forwarding implementation (#752)

This PR contains a series of patches that date back many years and I
believe were discussed on the mailing list, but never merged. We have
been using these in our local copy of libssh2 without issue since 2015,
if not earlier. I believe this is the full set of changes, as we tried
to use comments to mark where our copy of libssh2 differs from the
canonical version.

This also contains changes I made earlier this year, but which were not
discussed on the mailing list, to support certificates and FIDO2 keys
with agent forwarding.

Note that this is not a complete implementation of agent forwarding, as
that is outside the scope of libssh2. Clients still need to provide
their own implementation that parses ssh-agent methods after calling
libssh2_channel_read() and calls the appropriate callback messages in
libssh2. See the man page changes in this PR for more details.

Integration-patches-by: Viktor Szakats

* prefer size_t
* prefer unsigned int over u_int in public function
* add const
* docs, indent, checksrc, debug call, compiler warning fixes
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Michael Buckley
2023-04-22 01:54:20 -07:00
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@ -71,8 +71,67 @@ to the abstract pointer set in the \fIlibssh2_session_init_ex(3)\fP call.
The callback returns the number of bytes read, or -1 for error. The special
return code \fB-EAGAIN\fP can be returned to signal that the read was aborted
to prevent getting blocked and it needs to be called again.
.IP LIBSSH2_CALLBACK_AUTHAGENT
Called during authentication process to allow the client to connect to the
ssh-agent and perform any setup, such as configuring the agent or adding keys.
The prototype of the callback:
.nf
void authagent(LIBSSH2_SESSION* session, LIBSSH2_CHANNEL *channel,
void **abstract);
.fi
.IP LIBSSH2_CALLBACK_AUTHAGENT_IDENTITIES
Not called by libssh2. The client is responsible for calling this method when
a SSH2_AGENTC_REQUEST_IDENTITIES message has been received.
The prototype of the callback:
.nf
void identities(LIBSSH2_SESSION* session, void *buffer,
const char *agent_path,
void **abstract)
.fi
\fBbuffer\fP must be filled in by the callback. Different clients may implement
this differently. For example, one client may pass in an unsigned char ** for
this parameter, while another may pass in a pointer to a struct.
Regardless of the type of buffer used, the client will need to send back a list
of identities in the following format.
uint32 buffer length
uint32 number of entries
entries
Where each entry in the entries list is of the format:
string data
cstring comment
\fBagent_path\fP The path to a running ssh-agent on the client machine, from
which identities can be listed.
.IP LIBSSH2_CALLBACK_AUTHAGENT_SIGN
Not called by libssh2. The client is responsible for calling this method when
a SSH2_AGENTC_SIGN_REQUEST message has been received.
The prototype of the callback:
.nf
void sign(LIBSSH2_SESSION* session,
unsigned char *blob, unsigned int blen,
const unsigned char *data, unsigned int dlen,
unsigned char **sig, unsigned int *sig_len,
const char *agent_path,
void **abstract);
.fi
When interfacing with an ssh-agent installed on the client system, this method
can call libssh2_agent_sign(3) to perform signing.
.SH RETURN VALUE
Pointer to previous callback handler. Returns NULL if no prior callback
handler was set or the callback type was unknown.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR libssh2_session_init_ex(3)
.BR libssh2_agent_sign(3)