github.com/hashicorp/packer@v1.14.3/website/content/partials/helper/communicator/SSH-Agent-Auth-not-required.mdx (about) 1 - `ssh_agent_auth` (bool) - If true, the local SSH agent will be used to authenticate connections to 2 the source instance. No temporary keypair will be created, and the 3 values of [`ssh_password`](#ssh_password) and 4 [`ssh_private_key_file`](#ssh_private_key_file) will be ignored. The 5 environment variable `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` must be set for this option to work 6 properly.