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From: Duncan Murdoch <cygwin AT murdoch-sutherland DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: ssh-agent: Cygwin version problems
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:54:29 -0400
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I've been using OpenSSH with Cygwin for a while now, very
successfully. Thanks to all who put this together.

I'd like to set up my machine for remote logins now, which makes me
much more security conscious:  using an old version of OpenSSH is not
really an option.

However, I can't find a way to get the latest OpenSSH to work without
messing up ssh-agent in the sense that it becomes strongly attached to
the bash window in which it was started.  With the versions I've got
now, I can start ssh-agent, and an ssh tunnel, and then close the
window, and those processes keep running.  This is very nice!

As soon as I upgrade Cygwin, or the base files, this stops working.
The bash window refuses to close; if I tell Windows to shut it down,
it kills ssh-agent and ssh as well.

If I only upgrade OpenSSH, it won't start, because it's been linked
against a newer version of cygwin1.dll, and can't find an entry point
it needs.

Here's how I start ssh-agent:

alias sshstart='ssh-agent >~/ssh-agent-pid; source ~/ssh-agent-pid;
ssh-add'

and here's ssh:

alias sshtunnel='ssh -N -f -L [my tunnel]  [my username]  >/dev/null
2>/dev/null </dev/null '

I've attached the /etc/setup/installed.db version database below
listing the setup that works.  Has anyone got ssh-agent working with a
current OpenSSH release?  Could you tell me the versions you have
installed?

Thanks in advance.

Duncan Murdoch

INSTALLED.DB 2
base-files base-files-1.1-1.tar.bz2 0
base-passwd base-passwd-1.1-1.tar.bz2 0
bash bash-2.05b-9.tar.bz2 0
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cygwin cygwin-1.3.22-1.tar.bz2 0
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texinfo texinfo-4.2-4.tar.bz2 0
textutils textutils-2.0.21-1.tar.bz2 0
tiff tiff-3.6.0-1.tar.bz2 0
vim vim-6.1.300-1.tar.bz2 0
w32api w32api-2.2-1.tar.bz2 0
which which-1.5-1.tar.bz2 0
zlib zlib-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2 0
_update-info-dir _update-info-dir-00158-1.tar.bz2 0


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