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Dave Korn's message received 3/20/2007 1:28 PM:
> On 20 March 2007 17:21, S Reed wrote:
> 
>> ssh-agent was working fine for me over a year ago. I am sorry I cannot
>> tell you what version I was running then. I upgraded a few times since
>> then (now running 1.5.22) and I started getting "Could not open a
>> connection to your authentication agent." from ssh-add. I found that if
>> I call ssh-agent on the command line and then issue the set and export
>> commands myself, then ssh-add works fine. It's just when I use "eval
>> `ssh-agent`" that ssh-add fails. With "eval `ssh-agent`" the env vars
>> are fine, the socket file is in /tmp, the agent process is running,
>> SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set and exported - basically it all looks like it
>> should work - but ssh-add does not work. If anyone can explain this or
>> at least tell me how to fix it, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
>   WAG:  Does "eval `ssh-agent | d2u`" work any better?
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

Thank you for the quick reply, Dave.
d2u doesn't seem to make any difference. I get the same behavior with or 
without it.
   Scott

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