Package guardian-agent

[colemickens]

Package Request: guardian-agent

guardian-agent is a way of being able to do agent forwarding when using mosh. It also allows verifying commands being executed. I don't fully understand how it works, but it seems valuable, especially as I shift back to using mosh on high-latency links.

[mmahut]

This project looks abandoned, it has been released as as beta in 2017.

[colemickens]

Hm, disappointing, but good point. I opened this to confirm: StanfordSNR/guardian-agent#24

[colemickens]

@mmahut I'm not really sure if we should proceed. I was going to close it, based on the response to the issue I filed on the guardian-agent repo, but I see you have a PR open now...

[mmahut]

@colemickens while I thought the same, I changed my mind because of two things. First of all there is sadly no alternative to this and mosh won't implement one, they own recommendation is actually using guardian-agent (as per mobile-shell/mosh#120 (comment)). And in the second place, the author of the project, Dima Kogan, did reply to my mail almost instantly, so while this is marked as beta, I think we should ship it with NixOS and help catch any outstanding bugs/problems with it.