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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:46:34 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ssh-agent, ntsec, and tmp permissions
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"Joseph M. Reagle Jr." wrote:
> 
> At 16:37 7/25/2000 -0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>  >>  >Try to enable ntsec cygwin feature.
>  >>
>  >> hrmm... the documentation says it should be on default, but I guess it
>  >> isn't. It doesn't even say how to enable it, I presume ntsec=yes in my
>  >> .bashrc?
>  >
>  >export CYGWIN=$CYGWIN ntsec
> 
> I'm having difficulty geting ssh-agent to work -- I believe it is an ntsec
> issue. I've enabled ntsec and have the ability to chown and chmod. When I
> instantiate ssh-agent it creates /tmp/ssh-reagle but fails to write a PID.
> 
> By deafult I get a ssh-agent exit of "bind: permission denied error"
> 
> If I:
> chmod 1777 /tmp
> chmod 1777 /ssh-reagle
> I get a bad modes error on /tmp/ssh-reagle
> 
> If I:
> chmod 1777 /tmp
> chmod 1700 /tmp/ssh-reagle
> I get a ssh-agent exit of "bind: permission denied error" (nor can I cd into
> ssh-reagle ...?)

You are not using OpenSSH, do you? AFAICS, the naming of the
tmp subdirectories follows another scheme.

I have just tried ssh-agent from OpenSSH and I had no problems.
I'm using ntsec on W2K.

If you want to try OpenSSH you can find it in

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Vinschen_Corinna/V1.1.1

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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