ssh-add

[jbk]

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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