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Pierre Muller wrote: > At 13:17 31/05/00 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Definitely. When you start ssh-agent, you'll have to redirect > >it's output to `eval' to get it working. ssh-agent only writes > >the environment settings to stdout. The same is true for > >`ssh-agent -k'. > > I am not very familair with UniXy Shells but I didn't find any mention of > this > in the man page ! Nope. Look at the SYNOPSIS section. There's the example using `eval'. > >Furthermore ssh-agent has no initial private keys. You'll have > >to add them using `ssh-add' after starting ssh-agent. You can get > >it a bit more convenient with an alias, eg.: > > > > alias startssh='eval `ssh-agent`; ssh-add' > > alias stopssh='eval `ssh-agent -k`' > > I did that , it works correctly for setting the env variables, > but I still obtain the following output from ssh-add: > > Could not open a connection to your authentification agent Good news: I can reproduce that. Bad news: It's only on W9X and I don't know why. I will investigate that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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