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ssh reads passphrase then just hangs


Hi,
    I was hoping that someone could cast some light on my ssh misery.
 
    I wish to connect to one of my freeBSD servers via ssh from a NT environment so I installed B20 onto my NT server/SP4 box.
 
    I ran mkpasswd and mkgroup to create the relevant /etc/ files.
 
    I then downloaded and extracted ssh-1.2.26-cygwinb20.tar.bz2 from Sergey Okhapkin excellent site.
   
    Setting CYGWIN to "  tty" and I tried to run ssh-agent. This fails with
 
Bad modes or owner for directory '/tmp/ssh-pik'
echo Agent creation failed, no agent started
 
    but ls -l /tmp gives
 
total 0
drwxrwxrwx   1 Administrators  None                  0 Nov  9 05:24 ssh-pik
 
or after I chown it:-
 
total 0
drwxrwxrwa   1 pik             None                  0 Nov  9 05:24 ssh-pik
 
O.K. I say I can do it by hand so I just run ssh1 -v sol and I get
 
SSH Version 1.2.26 [i586-pc-cygwin32], protocol version 1.5.
Standard version.  Does not use RSAREF.
KELLY: ssh_connect: getuid 1001 geteuid 1001 anon 1
KELLY: Connecting to sol [194.223.245.192] port 22.
KELLY: Connection established.
KELLY: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software version 1.2.26
KELLY: Waiting for server public key.
KELLY: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits).
KELLY: Host 'sol' is known and matches the host key.
KELLY: Initializing random; seed file //h//.ssh/random_seed
KELLY: Encryption type: idea
KELLY: Sent encrypted session key.
KELLY: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
KELLY: Received encrypted confirmation.
KELLY: No agent.
KELLY: Trying RSA authentication with key 'pik'
KELLY: Received RSA challenge from server.
Enter passphrase for RSA key 'pik':
 
    If I now enter the passphrase nothing happens, the window no longer responds to typing.
I can recover my prompt with a ctl-brk.
 
    Please could someone point out the foolish mistake that I have injected into this procedure.
 
    Thanks,
        Paul
 

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