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VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

310 points · 218 comments · Rapzid

  1. 10000truths · · focus · HN ↗
    So a program that is specifically designed to edit files and run arbitrary commands on a remote machine... can do so. Not sure where the bananas part comes in. Sending a binary over SSH/SFTP might sound weird at first glance, but VSCode can't assume that your remote machine can access the wider internet, and it needs a reliable way to bootstrap the agent on the remote. Shipping it over the SSH tunnel is the natural solution.
    1. jlarocco · · focus · HN ↗
      The idea that it needs to run an agent on the remote machine to edit files over SSH is itself bananas.
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