Exposing variables from connection plugin

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Hello all

I have modified the psrp plugin, so when connecting, it also stablishes an SSH connection with a SOCKS proxy in a random port, so psrp connection is stablished using that SOCKS proxy. As this is a random number, I want to use that value, the SOCKS port number later, in the tasks, to make some tasks use that proxy. How can I “publish” a variable from the connection plugin, so it is accesible from the tasks?

Thanks!

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Currently, there is no set way for connection plugins to return
variables, I have been thinking this would be a needed feature. There
are probably a few hacky ways of doing it, but i dont recommend that
approach as those are not guaranteed to continue working.

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Thanks Brian, could you share those hacks? Would it be enough to set an environment variable (at least for delegate_to localhost tasks)?