Re: ssh-agent + ssh_add on WinNT

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Tuesday 19 December 2000 00:41, CGrijalva@pav.com wrote:
> I have a similar problem to the one David Starks-Browning discussed
> in his 10-14 posting, where ssh-add could not open a connection to
> [...]
> The problem is that ssh-agent sets SSH_AGENT_PID incorrectly.  An
> eval get the correct agent_pid, which can then be set manually. 
> After that ssh-add works.
> [...]
> $ ssh-agent
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-bQnJS240/agent.240; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
> SSH_AGENT_PID=221; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
> echo Agent pid 221;
>
> administrator@CGRIJALVA ~
> $ ls -Fal /tmp/ssh-bQnJS240/a*
> srw-r--r--   1 administ None           15 Dec 18 17:05
> /tmp/ssh-bQnJS240/agent.240=
> $ eval `ssh-agent`
> Agent pid 165

That's the wrong way to do this. ssh-agent only prints the commands
to set the environment variables to stdout. Setting the variables is
in your responsibility. You should call ssh-agent either by raising
a sub command (eg. a shell)

	ssh-agent /bin/bash

or by setting the variables with eval but in the first call:

	eval `ssh-agent'

Don't call ssh-agent and then eval `ssh-agent`. The first ssh-agent
will never be used.

Corinna

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