Support for platform specific agent?

[Duncank]

I'm authenticating via agent: pageant on Windows, but need to use agent: $SSH_AUTH_SOCK on Mac. Since VSCode doesn't support platform specific settings-sync, I'm constantly changing this manually.

Could this extension support a multi-platform solution, or has anyone thought of a way of doing this already?

[Duncank]

I've looked around in the code for this extension and noticed that the agent is matched against my environment variables if one exists with the same name.

So I've created a workaround by:

• using agent: "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" for every connection (this works on Mac)
• creating an (user)-environment variable in Windows called SSH_AUTH_SOCK with a value of pageant.

Feel free to close this issue as this resolves my use case; of course a native solution would be welcome as well.

[SchoofsKelvin]

That's indeed one way to resolve your issue.

I'll see about supporting a small subset of bash shell parameter expansion to all fields that support environment variables. In that case, ${SSH_AUTH_SOCK:-pageant} would resolve to pageant if $SSH_AUTH_SOCK is empty or unset. Looking at this, you could then technically also add a ternary operation on some $PLATFORM variable, but I might add a simpler way to do that. That or a form of angular expressions where $VAR are const environment variables, I'll see. Not a priority right now though.