Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I'm running into the same issue trying to use a ssh-agent inside a CGI script. I know what the problem is, the ssh process isn't communicating with the ssh-agent, because it simply doesn't know about. We'd set the env vars in a normal shell, but I can't seem to make perl aware of the agent. I'm at a brick wall with the idea of 'exporting' the variables this way: $ENV{'SSH_AUTH_SOCK'} = $sock; $ENV{'SSH_AGENT_PID'} = $pid; Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Jason Welcker