Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/24/10:26:51
I guess you can forget these comments! I've just downloaded everything
again and keychain is now there and available. Seems it was a temporary
glitch!
Regards,
Tony.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Tony Arnold
> Sent: 24 May 2002 12:03
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Keychain package not installed with setup
>
>
> I've just installed cygwin ona laptop and was curious to note
> that the package keychain was not there. It didn't show up in
> the list of packages in setup and there was no directory for
> it in the release directory (I did a download with setup).
>
> After some detective work I noticed that there is an entry in
> setup.ini for this package but it has a line [test] in the
> middle of it. Here is the snippet:
>
> @ keychain
> sdesc: "An OpenSSH key manager"
> ldesc: "Keychain is an OpenSSH key manager, typically run
> from ~/.bash_profile. When run, it will make sure ssh-agent
> is running; if not, it will start ssh-agent. It will redirect
> ssh-agent's output to ~/.ssh-agent, so that cron jobs that
> need to use ssh-agent keys can simply source this file and
> make the necessary passwordless ssh connections. In addition,
> when keychain runs, it will check with ssh-agent and make
> sure that the ssh RSA/DSA keys that you specified on the
> keychain command line have actually been added to ssh-agent.
> If not, you are prompted for the appropriate passphrases so
> that they can be added by keychain."
> category: Utils
> requires: openssh bash grep gawk sh-utils cygwin
> [test]
> version: 1.8-1
> install: release/keychain/keychain-1.8-1.tar.bz2 7743
> 4eaac6fd38817a49cb1b16d0e4 ee58d5
> source: release/keychain/keychain-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2 11438
> 7be3f66015f080b9fbb2a7 b1bf145421
>
> Anyone know why the [test] line is there? Has keychain
> effectively been removed from the distribution and if so is
> there a good reason for this? I have it installed on my
> desktop machine so it was there once and it works fine.
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
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