How can I setup authentication agent forwarding for SSH?

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SSH-agent forwarding is used to automatically pass any authentication requests coming from other servers back to your own system's agent. Agent forwarding does not pass your secret key to the remote server but it does all the authentication on your system and only the results are sent to the remote server through an intermediate host.

Example:

Server A has a key ...

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