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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
To: Pierre Muller <muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: BASH and OpenSSH problems
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3935164D.5DF304F4@vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200005311235.OAA09466@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>

Pierre Muller wrote:
> At 13:17 31/05/00 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >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 !

Nope. Look at the SYNOPSIS section. There's the example using `eval'.
 
> >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

Good news: I can reproduce that. Bad news: It's only on W9X
and I don't know why. I will investigate that.

Corinna

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      reply	other threads:[~2000-05-31  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-30 19:40 cygwin Dietmar Lettau
2000-05-31  0:48 ` cygwin Heinz-Juergen Oertel
2000-05-31  3:38 ` BASH and OpenSSH problems Pierre Muller
2000-05-31  4:21   ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-05-31  5:19   ` Pierre Muller
2000-05-31  6:51     ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]

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