On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:04:13 +0200
Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> > D'accord. But Roland has the use case to run Emacs on a remote
> > host. He even doesn't start ssh-agent there, which would do the
> > job.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. Typically, I do something like
> 
> ssh -t winkler@foo.org ssh-agent emacs
> 
> So my remote session is only emacs under an ssh-agent. I would like
> to be able to run ssh-add from within the remote emacs iff ssh-add
> is needed because I want to establish a connection to yet some other
> host(s). (Of course, locally I am using shh-agent and ssh-add, too.
> Yet that helps me only for the ssh connections that I do starting
> from localhost.)

If I understand you correctly use agent forwarding. It's a sshd option.

> Roland