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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITP] win-ssh-agent 1.07
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l375b7tbo3hak3t25rf6heidbh476pee37@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANyrVW=v8mFQ+_9WSRSe4LHpy_z60=zUVBJLrHDOyiJfRmst2Q@mail.gmail.com>

> I'd like to package and maintain win-ssh-agent for Cygwin.
> With the win-ssh-agent, we can use the ssh-agent (available inthe
> cygwin openssh) in the more smart way.
> Normally, we need to start all relevant programs, which mightneed to
> use the ssh, as child processes of the shell(e.g. bash) in which you
> eval'ed the ssh-agent.  Because, theprograms must be able to refer to
> environment variables thatset by the ssh-agent.
> The win-ssh-agent enables all programs to refer to theenvironment
> variables of the ssh-agent, i.e. theSSH_AUTH_SOCK.  Now, we no longer
> need to start programs aschild processes of the shell.

+1 Sounds useful.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 11:20 Nayuta Taga
2011-11-03 13:52 ` Andrew Schulman [this message]
2011-11-04  3:04   ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-04  6:37     ` Nayuta Taga
2011-11-04  9:44       ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-11-04 14:06         ` Thrall, Bryan
2011-11-04 14:22       ` Eric Blake
2011-11-04 16:18         ` Nayuta Taga
2011-11-04 16:36         ` 多賀奈由太
2011-11-06  5:21     ` Karl M
2011-11-06  5:30       ` Christopher Faylor

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