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RE: ssh-agent doesn't work with eval
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:28:01 -0000
- Subject: RE: ssh-agent doesn't work with eval
- References: <46001815.7090807@spamcop.net>
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
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