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copied!<p>Short answer: </p> <p>With ssh-agent running locally and identities added, <code>ssh -A user@host.webfaction.com</code> provides the secure shell on the remote host with the local agent's identities.</p> <p>Long answer:</p> <p>As Charles suggested, <a href="http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html#fwd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">agent forwarding</a> is the solution.</p> <p>At first, I thought that I could just issue an <code>ssh user@host.webfaction.com</code> and then, from within the secure session on the remote host, connect to the BitBucket repository using hg+ssh. But that failed, and so I investigated the <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/168933/extra-configuration-required-for-ssh-agent-forwarding/280938#280938">ForwardAgent and AgentForwardingEnabled flags</a>.</p> <p>Thinking that I'd have to settle for a workaround in .bashrc that involved keeping my private key on the remote host, I went looking for a shell-script solution but was spared from this kludge by this <a href="https://superuser.com/a/249712/18898">answer in SuperUser</a>, which is perfect and works without any client configuration (I'm not sure how the sshd server is configured on WebFaction). </p> <p>Aside: in my question, I posted the following:</p> <pre><code>ps aux | grep 1234.*ssh-agent` kill -SIGHUP 43210 </code></pre> <p>but this is actually inefficient and requires the user to know his/her uid (available via <code>/etc/passwd</code>). <code>pgrep</code> is much easier:</p> <pre><code>pgrep -u username process-name </code></pre>

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