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: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:52:22 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with 20050215 snapshot and ssh-agent forwarding Message-ID: <20050218155222.GE12342@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050216192355.SUQO15146.out004.verizon.net@[127.0.0.1]> <20050218143035 DOT GA31409 AT gw DOT jsoft DOT lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050218143035.GA31409@gw.jsoft.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:30:35AM -0500, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: >On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:23:03AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >> I'm having a problem with the 20050215 snapshot (and the 20050131 as >> well). My ssh-agent connection is not being forwarded by ssh. This is >> working fine with the 20041119 snapshot. >> >> Here are the steps to reproduce the problem. I've got ssh and sshd >> correctly configured to forward ssh-agent connections. The second ssh >> command should not prompt to the public key passphrase. >> >> % keychain ~/.ssh/id_dsa >> >> KeyChain 2.0.3; http://www.gentoo.org/projects/keychain >> Copyright 2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL >> * All previously running ssh-agent(s) have been stopped. >> * Initializing /home/drothe/.keychain/tela-sh file... >> * Initializing /home/drothe/.keychain/tela-csh file... >> * Starting new ssh-agent >> * 1 more keys to add... >> Enter passphrase for /home/drothe/.ssh/id_dsa: >> Identity added: /home/drothe/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/drothe/.ssh/id_dsa) >> >> % . ~/.keychain/tela-sh >> % ssh `hostname` >> % ssh `hostname` >> Enter passphrase for key '/home/drothe/.ssh/id_dsa': > >Have you tried " ssh -A `hostname` " instead... just to make sure the >ssh actually forwards the agent? Why would he have to do that? The first one worked. The second one failed. >If this works (and it should), add "ForwardAgent yes" to your >~/.ssh/config file. see "man ssh_config" for details Ditto this. If the first invocation works then I don't think there is any reason to suspect configuration problems. cgf -- 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/