From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Chris Rodgers <ctr28@cam.ac.uk>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ssh-pageant
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:51:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150670600.20200423235119@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d165e827-49ac-e2c6-908c-b58d88c5395e@cam.ac.uk>
Greetings, Chris Rodgers!
> Thanks for the detailed reply. Interesting!
>> It's not that simple. You can't blindly restart agent every time you wish
>> without notifying other programs, `--reuse` is a very bad idea and there's
>> no easy way to set/change an environment variable globally for an entire
>> user session.
> May I ask, why do you say "--reuse" is a very bad idea? I'd be
> interested to know in general, not just when considering this change.
With --reuse you're using predictable name, and not checking its permissions.
You can never know if that socket was actually created by you or left there by
accident. If you noticed, I trash both socket and agent configuration before
activating the agent anew. That gives me a little more control on what's going
on in the system.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 23, 2020 23:46:25
Sorry for my terrible english...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-23 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-23 13:50 ssh-pageant Chris Rodgers
2020-04-23 14:11 ` ssh-pageant Thomas Wolff
2020-04-23 18:31 ` ssh-pageant Andrey Repin
2020-04-23 18:59 ` ssh-pageant Thomas Wolff
2020-04-23 20:27 ` ssh-pageant Bill Stewart
2020-04-23 16:40 ` ssh-pageant Chris Rodgers
2020-04-23 16:47 ` ssh-pageant Chris Rodgers
2020-04-23 19:44 ` ssh-pageant Chris Rodgers
2020-04-23 18:33 ` ssh-pageant Brian Inglis
2020-04-23 20:02 ` ssh-pageant Andrey Repin
2020-04-23 20:20 ` ssh-pageant Chris Rodgers
2020-04-23 20:51 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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