Daniel Beck added a comment - 2017-07-06 09:29 Desirable, but if you have an ssh-agent, you can always use the SSH-based CLI with regular SSH clients.

Sorin Sbarnea added a comment - 2017-08-22 20:27 Daniel Beck , that's what I was aiming to do as I find ssh client approach zillions times nicer than downloading and running a jar on the client.... which reminds me of websites asking me to download Flash (or another plugin)  . Now the problem is that even with SSH I was not able to get it working yet. Somehow the connection starts but I get no reply from Jenkins. After some time the connection is dropped serverside:   Aug 22, 2017 8:13:51 PM hudson.init.impl.InstallUncaughtExceptionHandler$1 reportException WARNING: null java.io.IOException: HTTP full-duplex channel timeout: c66ea617-6e99-4411-9535-534435ac15ee at jenkins.util.FullDuplexHttpService.download(FullDuplexHttpService.java:104) at jenkins.util.FullDuplexHttpService$Response.generateResponse(FullDuplexHttpService.java:171) No other feedback at all, making quite hard to guess what is causing this behavior.      

Jesse Glick added a comment - 2017-09-13 07:11 Sorin Sbarnea that exception is like  JENKINS-43666 but this makes no sense since that code is only used from the HTTP-based client. Irrelevant if you are using native SSH to connect.