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Karl M wrote:
> Just a comment...keychain is pretty heavy for what you get in Cygwin. I had problems a long time ago with a slow laptop running XP SP2 with Cygwin windows taking a long time to open if I kicked off several at once, particularly at boot time.
> 
> My solution was to launch ssh-agent as a service (one for each user that wants it). That service spawns the agent and updates the user environment in the registry so that other processes can find the ssh-agent process/socket. The advantages are that it is fast and the agent survives a logout (only rekey for a reboot is desired).
> 
> I had thought about offering it as a package, but there was insufficient interest. Your are welcome to it if you are interested. It has been rock solid for years.

That sounds like a useful alternative.

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Chuck

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