Re: BASH and OpenSSH problems

[Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>]

At 13:17 31/05/00 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Pierre Muller wrote:
>> 
>>   I am trying to use ssh-agent for Corrina's latest port
>> with bash 2.04.
>> 
>>   I am working on a Win95 machine and I also installed crypt and login
package
>> as recommended.
>
>???
>I never mentioned that crypt and login are needed to
>work with ssh. They are needed for the inetutils package.
 Whoops, sorry, I mixed bothg :(

>>   Using ssh-agent does not set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK and
>> SSH_AGENT_PID env variables !
>> 
>>   Do I miss something here ??
>
>Definitely. When you start ssh-agent, you'll have to redirect
>it's output to `eval' to get it working. ssh-agent only writes
>the environment settings to stdout. The same is true for
>`ssh-agent -k'.

  I am not very familair with UniXy Shells but I didn't find any mention of
this
in the man page !

>Furthermore ssh-agent has no initial private keys. You'll have
>to add them using `ssh-add' after starting ssh-agent. You can get
>it a bit more convenient with an alias, eg.:
>
>	alias startssh='eval `ssh-agent`; ssh-add'
>	alias stopssh='eval `ssh-agent -k`'

  I did that , it works correctly for setting the env variables,
but I still obtain the following output from ssh-add:

Could not open a connection to your authentification agent 

  ssh-agent is still running it has the correct PID (the value of
SSH_AGENT_PID)
  HOME env var is also set.

  Any idea what is still wrong ??





Pierre Muller
Institut Charles Sadron
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F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France)
mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr
Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07  Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99

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