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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Steven Woody Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: keychain-2.0.3-1 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:33:35 +0800 Organization: LCZM Software Ltd, Zhuhai, China Lines: 105 Message-ID: References: <20031123174927 DOT 5B29932A6E0 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Hack Kampbjorn writes: alreay have ssh-agent + ssh-add, why people need keychain? > ******************** WARNING: *************************************** > As of version 2.0 Keychain now stores keychain files in the ~/.keychain/ > directory for tidiness. New filenames too: ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh > and ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-csh > > The shell profile file (e.g. ~/.bash_profile for bash) has to be > updated to reflect this change: > keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa > . ~/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh > > ******************** WARNING: *************************************** > > > DESCRIPTION: > Keychain is an OpenSSH key manager, typically run from > ~/.bash_profile. When run, it will make sure ssh-agent is running; if > not, it will start ssh-agent. It will redirect ssh-agent's output to > ~/.ssh-agent, so that cron jobs that need to use ssh-agent keys can > simply source this file and make the necessary passwordless ssh > connections. In addition, when keychain runs, it will check with > ssh-agent and make sure that the ssh RSA/DSA keys that you specified on > the keychain command line have actually been added to ssh-agent. If not, > you are prompted for the appropriate passphrases so that they can be > added by keychain. > > > CYGWIN NEWS: > - Update to keychain 2.0.3 > - keychain.cygwin is no more install normal keychain > > > KEYCHAIN NEWS: > Keychain 2.0.3 contains some fixes for color issues and a grep -i option for > cygwin. > > Keychain 2.0.2 contains a fix for the handling of ssh-askpass; SSH_ASKPASS now > needs to be set to enable askpass functionality. > > Keychain 2.0.1 contains Solaris, Tru64 and MacOS X fixes, "--help" fixes, and > compatibility with x11-ssh-askpass. > > Keychain 2.0 contains HP-UX and Cygwin fixes (Cygwin support is now inside the > main keychain script), and now stores keychain files in the ~/.keychain/ > directory for tidiness. New filenames too: ~/.keychain/sh-${HOSTNAME} and > ~/.keychain/csh-${HOSTNAME}. Keychain 2.0 also contains a bunch of additional > fixes and performance improvements, and the --local option has been > depreciated. Added the --dir option so that you can specify an alternate > location for keychain to look for the .keychain directory: "keychain --dir > /var/foo /path/to/my/key" will cause keychain to look for /var/foo/.keychain. > > > INSTALLATION: > To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on > the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your > system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Utils" and > then click on the appropriate field until the above announced version > number appears if it is not displayed already. > > If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin > mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . I would appreciate it if you would > use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes > ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. > > If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list > is the appropriate place. > > *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** > > If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look > at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. > Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: > > cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com > > If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: > > http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple > > Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available > starting at this URL. > > I implore you to READ this information before sending email about how > you "tried everything" to unsubscribe. In 100% of the cases where > people were unable to unsubscribe, the problem was that they hadn't > actually read and comprehended the unsubscribe instructions. > > If you need to unsubscribe from cygwin-announce or any other mailing > list, reading the instructions at the above URL is guaranteed to > provide you with the info that you need. > > > -- > Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards > > Hack Kampbjørn > > -- Steven Woody anti-spam DOT steven AT lczmsoft DOT com DOT dont-post-to -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/