Class Agent

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  AgentSSH --+
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            Agent

Client interface for using private keys from an SSH agent running on the
local machine.  If an SSH agent is running, this class can be used to
connect to it and retreive `.PKey` objects which can be used when
attempting to authenticate to remote SSH servers.

Upon initialization, a session with the local machine's SSH agent is
opened, if one is running. If no agent is running, initialization will
succeed, but `get_keys` will return an empty tuple.

:raises SSHException:
    if an SSH agent is found, but speaks an incompatible protocol