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encrypt data with SSH public key, decrypt with SSH agent #30

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What stops things from happening?
Need to remember passwords and share them between people who need to access the 
same encrypted data is a nightmare.

What is affected? Any references?
Ansible and other infrastructure management tools that are run by multiple 
people.

What could be done?
Learn if it is possible encrypt file with a public SSH key and decrypt with SSH 
agent, sum up the results, draft a plan to fix this.
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html#chal

Any alternative workarounds?
SSH agent is already running on most admin systems, so no need to run yet 
another one implementation.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by techtonik@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2014 at 6:13

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