I am running cygwin on WinXP I am having trouble with ssh-agent not being able to establish the SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables. then when i go to run ssh-add it can't find the authentication agent. I know this is the problem becuase i manually executed the commands the ssh-agent is supposed to do automatically. however i did find that i needed to add "set" in front of the environment variable assignment. Have i messed spmething up when changing around permissions or what isn't this supposed to work in cygwin?
results of ssh-agent: $ ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=284; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 284; then i check to see if the environment variables have been added, and they have not: $ set | grep SSH $ So i add then manually by adding the set keyword in front: $ set SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; $ $ set SSH_AGENT_PID=284; export SSH_AGENT_PID; $ then i check to see that the EV's are there: $ set | grep SSH SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576 _=SSH_AGENT_PID and now everything works... There has got to be an easier way. please help. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
