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ssh-add could not open connection
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: matt at mattflo dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:02:03 +0000
- Subject: ssh-add could not open connection
- References: <20030224074938.24900.qmail@web14901.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sunday 23 Feb 03, Matt writes:
> I am running cygwin on WinXP I am having trouble with
> ssh-agent not being able to establish the
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables.
> then when i go to run ssh-add it can't find the
> authentication agent. I know this is the problem
> becuase i manually executed the commands the ssh-agent
> is supposed to do automatically. however i did find
> that i needed to add "set" in front of the environment
> variable assignment. Have i messed spmething up when
> changing around permissions or what isn't this
> supposed to work in cygwin?
>
> results of ssh-agent:
> $ ssh-agent
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576; export
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
> SSH_AGENT_PID=284; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
> echo Agent pid 284;
You need to run
eval `ssh-agent`
instead of
ssh-agent
(not Cygwin-specific).
Regards,
David
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