I recently had some trouble getting ssh public key forwarding working with Capistrano and my Mac.

I thought it might be helpful for others if I documented it

It’s actually pretty simple.

In your capistrano recipe you need to explicitly state you want to use forwarding:

ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true

and from the command line:

$ ssh-add -l

Hope that helps somebody! (other than me )

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