On 26May2019 22:55, Fc Zwtyds <fczwt...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using cygwin on Windows 8.1. These two commands work fine in
cygwin:
ssh-agent -s
ssh-add ~/.ssh /id_rsa
No, they run without error (apparently). That is an entirely different
thing.
In particular, "ssh-agent -s" starts an agent but unless you make use of
its output, your subsequent commands will have no idea how to access it.
Since ssh-add (apparently) works, then I would guess you _already_ had
an agent, and it is adding to that agent's keys. And, importantly,
_ignoring_ the new agent you started.
Try running your commands above again, but _before_ them, run "ssh-add
-l". If that works then there's already an agent known to the shell and
your subsequent "ssh-add" is likely adding to that, not to the new agent
you dispatched.
I tried to use them on windows cmd and it worked fine. Now I am
going to use python to write code to implement the above command.
os.system('ssh-agent -s')
os.system('ssh-add id_rsa')
There was an error:
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
I'm presuming that as with UNIXy systems, os.system() on Windows issues
its commands to a distinct shell ( instance of cmd.exe or the like).
As such, since you've made no effort to catch and parse the output of
"ssh-agent -s" you don't know how to talk to the agent you started, and
further since you don't pass any information to the shell running
"ssh-add" then it doesn't know how to do that either.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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