Which mechanism does ssh use to interact with the SSH agent?
A) Connecting to port 2222 which is used by the system-wide SSH agent.
B) Using the fixed socket .ssh-agent/ipc. Using the fixed socket .ssh-agent/ipc.
C) Creating an alias replacing ssh with calls to ssh-agent . Creating an alias replacing ssh with calls to ssh-agent .
D) Starting ssh-agent as a child process for each ssh invocation. Starting as a child process for each ssh invocation.
E) Evaluating environment variables such as SSH_AUTH_SOCK . Evaluating environment variables such as SSH_AUTH_SOCK

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SSH uses environment variables like SSH_AUTH_SOCK to interact with the SSH agent, which provides the path to the socket used for communication.

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