SSH Agent Forwarding

[DCAuto]

Hi All,

My current setup is using ssh-keys on my laptop which are forwarded to a bastion host using Agent Forwarding. I am trying run a netmiko script on the bastion using the forwarded keys to login but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm not sure how to specify the forwarded keys. Can anybody help me with a solution?

switch_ip = '10.10.10.10'
netmiko_device = {
    'device_type': 'arista_eos',
    'ip': switch_ip,
    'username': 'myuser',
    'use_keys': True,
}

net_connect = ConnectHandler(**netmiko_device)

[ktbyers]

Add "allow_agent": True to your netmiko_device and then post ConnectHandler call, try:

# Create a channel for agent forwarding
transport = net_connect.get_transport()
channel = transport.open_session()
channel.request_forward_agent()

[DCAuto]

I'm getting the following error:
AttributeError: 'AristaSSH' object has no attribute 'get_transport'

netmiko_device = {
    'device_type': 'arista_eos',
    'ip': switch_ip,
    'username': 'myuser',
    'allow_agent': True,
}

net_connect = ConnectHandler(**netmiko_device)
transport = net_connect.get_transport()

channel = transport.open_session()
channel.request_forward_agent()

[ktbyers]

transport = net_connect.remote_conn.get_transport()

[DCAuto]

That did it with one final modification to the script....Need to pass the ConnectHandler object into the request_forward_agent function:

    netmiko_device = {
    'device_type': 'arista_eos',
    'ip': switch_ip,
    'username': 'myuser',
    'allow_agent': True,
    }
    
    net_connect = ConnectHandler(**netmiko_device)
    transport = net_connect.remote_conn.get_transport()
    channel = transport.open_session()
    channel.request_forward_agent(net_connect)