ssh-add

[scottprive at earthlink.net (Scott Prive)]

cool... glad I could help :-D

-Scott Prive
unemployed SQA Engineer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jbk" <jbk at mail2.gis.net>
Cc: "Blu" <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: ssh-add


> I think your close. I have shied away from setting the ntsec environment
> variable because my system straddles fat, ntfs, and samba. My cygwin
distro
> resides on my server and is accessed through a samba share. I use cygwin
to
> access openoffice, the gimp, and administrate my backups. Anyway I will
have to
> experiment with new settings.
>
> Scott Prive wrote:
>
> > No idea - however - it would be important to note what Cygwin dll you
> > upgraded from, and lookup the date it was originally released.
> > I would check the Cygwin release notes since that point.
> >
> > In the past I was bit by Cygwin security and simply upgrading my Cygwin
> > install -- the ssh server stopped working. For my problem, the cause was
a
> > change to Cygwin security, where the the NT security model was imported
into
> > the system. This is all very vague I know, but perhaps the newer version
> > enabled or tightened security so your old configuration is no longer
> > acceptable.
> >
> > Check the Cygwin User Guide, particularly under the CYGWIN environment
> > variable and "ntsec". This was where I fixed my win2k sshd server
problem
> > some time back.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "jbk" <jbk at mail2.gis.net>
> > To: "Blu" <discuss at blu.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:08 AM
> > Subject: ssh-add
> >
> > > I have been useing ssh under cygwin to access my
> > > Linux server from Wnt4sp5. I have been using
> > > successfuly the following script to initiate my
> > > ssh session.
> > >
> > > ##################################
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > # startagent
> > > # Purpose of this script is to start ssh-agent
> > > # This script is from John Abreau @blu.org who
> > > # runs it from the command line
> > >
> > > ssh-agent | head -2 > /home/Dad/.ssh/agent-id
> > >     sleep 3
> > >     source .ssh/agent-id
> > >     ssh-add
> > > # end of script 021201
> > > ############################
> > >
> > > I recently upgraded to the latest cygwin dll
> > > 1.3.22-1 and the 4/1/03 update of openssh via the
> > > cygwin setup utility. Now when I run this script I
> > > get the following mssg:
> > >      Could not open a connection to your
> > > authentication agent.
> > >
> > > There is a PID for ssh-agent when I type ps. I
> > > have run this script from the command line one
> > > step at a time (excluding sleep 3) and it is when
> > > ssh-add is entered that I get the error mssg. I
> > > can still type $> ssh username at server or if I am
> > > in an Xsession  $> ssh -X username at server and log
> > > into the Linux server.
> > >
> > > Has anyone run into this problem?
> > >
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