Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:02:03 +0000 Message-ID: <7149-Mon24Feb2003080203+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: matt AT mattflo DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: ssh-add could not open connection In-Reply-To: <20030224074938.24900.qmail@web14901.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030224074938 DOT 24900 DOT qmail AT web14901 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> On Sunday 23 Feb 03, Matt writes: > I am running cygwin on WinXP I am having trouble with > ssh-agent not being able to establish the > SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables. > then when i go to run ssh-add it can't find the > authentication agent. I know this is the problem > becuase i manually executed the commands the ssh-agent > is supposed to do automatically. however i did find > that i needed to add "set" in front of the environment > variable assignment. Have i messed spmething up when > changing around permissions or what isn't this > supposed to work in cygwin? > > results of ssh-agent: > $ ssh-agent > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576; export > SSH_AUTH_SOCK; > SSH_AGENT_PID=284; export SSH_AGENT_PID; > echo Agent pid 284; You need to run eval `ssh-agent` instead of ssh-agent (not Cygwin-specific). Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/