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by wrkronmiller 1998 days ago
You say that having private keys on servers is bad, and you say that using SSH agent forwarding "is the devil."

How, exactly, do you expect people to do things like use git or pivot from Server A to Server B over SSH?

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HTTP is a thing.

Yeah, when pushing up files from a client to a server, or pulling down files, SSH makes sense, but for server to server, there's no need to use something with a full control channel for a simple file transfer.

As to your question on how to use jump hosts, that's what -J is for.

ssh -J ServerA ServerB