RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Morche Matthias
You just want to connect from one host to another one. It's totally sufficient to set up the key and copy the public part into authorized keys on the remote host. I never used ssh-agent nor ssh-add and passwordless logins to several hosts and Windows are hourly routine. Why do you need them? mat

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
Morche Matthias wrote: Simpler than using keychain and ssh-agent, Hmm... did You ever try to just generate your key by ssh-keygen and then copy the public key ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub eg to Your remote host into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Would You consider this to be simpler? matthias (Yes, I have do

RE: Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Morche Matthias
Simpler than using keychain and ssh-agent, Hmm... did You ever try to just generate your key by ssh-keygen and then copy the public key ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub eg to Your remote host into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Would You consider this to be simpler? matthias H.S. wrote: > Hi Karl, > > Karl M wrot

[SOLVED] Re: zone alarm service depency problem with sshd

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am trying to have sshd running on my Windows XP box. I have Zone Alarm installed, ver. 6.0.667. I configured sshd with: $> ssh-host-config and started as a service: $> cygrunsrv -S sshd which promptly made Zone Alarm to ask if sshd should be allowed internet access. I all

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel-4.14-1

2005-11-30 Thread Marcel Telka
I've updated the stunnel package to version 4.14-1. Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption,

zone alarm service depency problem with sshd

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
Hi, I am trying to have sshd running on my Windows XP box. I have Zone Alarm installed, ver. 6.0.667. I configured sshd with: $> ssh-host-config and started as a service: $> cygrunsrv -S sshd which promptly made Zone Alarm to ask if sshd should be allowed internet access. I allowed it's clie

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Karl M
Hi H.S Using keychain is only one way, it is not the only way. I no longer use keychain. I launch ssh-agent from a bash script that is run as a service from cygrunsrv; it is run as the user, not as SYSTEM. This makes the ssh-agent process survive Windows logout; I only have to enter a pa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnome-keyring-0.4.6-1

2005-11-30 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** gnome-keyring-0.4.6-1 GNOME Keyring is a system to store passwords and other sensitive data in a standardized way across all GNOME applications. A keyring stores a collection o

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H.S.
Hi Karl, Karl M wrote: > Hi HS... > > You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe). > > I do something like > > ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1 > if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then > ssh-add > fi > > in my .bash_profile, because keychain is slow when I launch several > windows. Okay, I will try t

RE: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread Karl M
Hi HS... You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe). I do something like ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then ssh-add fi in my .bash_profile, because keychain is slow when I launch several windows. Why do you kill the agent when you log out? (Windows will kill it w

Re: Syslog "event source" registration [Was Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)]

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Why complicate openlog()? Let the Cygwin applications that use openlog() > do this (e.g., in a postinstall script). We could even add a utility > package in "Base", similar to "editrights", that contains scripts for > adding and removing this setting (something like 'r

Syslog "event source" registration [Was Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)]

2005-11-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christian Franke wrote: > > > Unlike syslog, windows event log is intended to store only message > > parameters, not complete messages. > > The (probably localized) messages must be provided by such an "event > > message file" (the misleading MS-term;-),

how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H.S.
Hi, I yesterday installed a bare minimum Cygwin (via internet) on to a laptop running Windows XP. The purpose of the Cygwin installation is to backup data on to a Linux computer using rsync and ssh. I was wondering, to allow for passwordless login via ssh I have to run ssh-agent and ssh-add comma

Re: Redirect SSHD messages from Application to Security log in Win2k

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Listmail wrote: > 1) The sshd messages in the Windows Event Viewer Application log are half junk > and half "real" message. The following junk paragraph appears in every logged > message. How can I get rid of it ? It is possible, but not a simple change that you can just enable. You'll need to a

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Cary Jamison wrote: > I think we all know that encryption is a factor. The site still states : No, I wouldn't say that we all know that. I just ran "openssl speed" and on my very modest Athlon XP 1700 machine and both the aes-128 and blowfish ciphers clocked in at approximately 60-65 megabytes/

Re: cygwin postgres installation

2005-11-30 Thread Reini Urban
Nambi Sankaran schrieb: Hi Reini using the release notes I am trying to start postgresql server in my cygwin area. ( http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/cygwin/release/postgresql/README ) but the initdb process fails due to some errors. please see the log below. please advice.

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-30 Thread Holger Krull
Cary Jamison schrieb: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ I think we all know that encryption is a factor. But a small one, compared to the limit imposed by the window size. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cy

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-30 Thread Cary Jamison
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Holger Krull typed: > The low speed of ssh and scp is not because of the encyption. > The problem is the 64K limit for the window size in the protocoll. > Further information and a patch can be found here: > > http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ I think we a

setup.exe 2.510.2.2 failing after displaying "set_cygdrive_flags" dialog box

2005-11-30 Thread Jonathan
I found this thread in the mailing list archives http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/threads.html#00901 which is the exact same problem I am having but the thread seemed to die off with no resolution. Does anyone know what the resolution was, if one was reached, or what information should I su

Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2005-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Since we're much too long on the way to the 1.5.19 release and there are already way too many changes since 1.5.18, we would again like to ask people for testing the latest snapshot, 2005-Nov-30, from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please report back in this thread when you encounter a proble

Redirect SSHD messages from Application to Security log in Win2k

2005-11-30 Thread Listmail
Hi all, Installed cygwin sshd as a service on Win2k Advanced Server yesterday and it works great. I have 2 issues, not real problems. 1) The sshd messages in the Windows Event Viewer Application log are half junk and half "real" message. The following junk paragraph appears in every logged mes

Re: enscript-1.6.4-1

2005-11-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Volker Zell writes: > I would also put the default config file under the /etc/default > directory hirarchie. A lot of packages already do this. man pages and info files also should go to the /usr/share hirarchie. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-30 Thread Holger Krull
The low speed of ssh and scp is not because of the encyption. The problem is the 64K limit for the window size in the protocoll. Further information and a patch can be found here: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple