ssh-pageant hangs under Win10

2021-07-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! I have an issue with ssh-pageant. Every now and then its response time begin to rise, up to complete unusability. I've been forced to include a small wrapper > ssh-add -l > /dev/null 2>&1 & > sleep 1 > if kill -0 $! 2> /dev/null; then > echo

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Chris Rodgers! > Thanks for the detailed reply. Interesting! >> It's not that simple. You can't blindly restart agent every time you wish >> without notifying other programs, `--reuse` is a very bad idea and there's >> no easy way to set/change an environment variable globally for an e

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Bill Stewart
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM Thomas Wolff wrote: > The Cygwin package manager (setup) in the description of the ssh-pageant > package: > "SSH agent for Cygwin/MSYS that links to PuTTY's Pageant" The language is a bit imprecise, I suppose. Pageant is related to but != P

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
Dear Andrew, Thanks for the detailed reply. Interesting! It's not that simple. You can't blindly restart agent every time you wish without notifying other programs, `--reuse` is a very bad idea and there's no easy way to set/change an environment variable globally for an entire user session.

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Chris Rodgers! > I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to interact > seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is that after > installing, one has to add the lines: >> |# ssh-pageant eval $(/usr/bin/ssh-pageant -r -a &

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
gnome-ssh-askpass.fish set -x SSH_ASKPASS "/usr/libexec/gnome-ssh-askpass" Is there any mileage in the argument that if we do this for Gnome's SSH helper, we can also reasonably do it for ssh-pageant? I'll leave this for now and see whether anyone else has an opinion. Be

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 23.04.2020 um 20:31 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Am 23.04.2020 um 15:50 schrieb Chris Rodgers: Hi, I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to interact seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is that after installing, one has t

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 23.04.2020 um 15:50 schrieb Chris Rodgers: >> Hi, >> >> I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to >> interact seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is >> that after installing, o

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-23 07:50, Chris Rodgers wrote: > I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to interact > seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is that after > installing, one has to add the lines: > # ssh-pageant > eval $(/usr/b

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
On 23/04/2020 17:40, Chris Rodgers wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: >/Would it be acceptable to update the ssh-pageant package to add a file />//etc/profile.d/ssh-pageant.sh that does this automatically? /Does what? Add something to other users' profiles? P.S. I realise I may have b

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
Thomas Wolff wrote: >/Would it be acceptable to update the ssh-pageant package to add a file />//etc/profile.d/ssh-pageant.sh that does this automatically? /Does what? Add something to other users' profiles? Sounds like MS-style patronizing of user preferences. Certainly not app

Re: ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 23.04.2020 um 15:50 schrieb Chris Rodgers: Hi, I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to interact seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is that after installing, one has to add the lines: |# ssh-pageant eval $(/usr/bin/ssh-pageant -r -a

ssh-pageant

2020-04-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
Hi, I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to interact seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is that after installing, one has to add the lines: |# ssh-pageant eval $(/usr/bin/ssh-pageant -r -a "/tmp/.ssh-pageant-$USERNAME")| (see htt

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ssh-pageant-1.4-1

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Wild
Hi Andrey On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Finally I can have access to elevated pageant from regular desktop! > > Autostart (elevated): > > test -f "$HOME/.ssh_agent" && . "$HOME/.ssh_agent" > eval $(ssh-pageant.exe -k) > ssh-pageant.exe -s | tee "$HOME/.ssh_agent" > > .bash

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ssh-pageant-1.4-1

2015-02-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Wild! > Version 1.4-1 of "ssh-pageant" has been uploaded. > ssh-pageant is a tiny tool for Windows that allows you to use SSH keys > from PuTTY's Pageant in Cygwin and MSYS shell environments. You can > use ssh-pageant to automate SSH connections fr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ssh-pageant-1.4-1

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Wild
Version 1.4-1 of "ssh-pageant" has been uploaded. ssh-pageant is a tiny tool for Windows that allows you to use SSH keys from PuTTY's Pageant in Cygwin and MSYS shell environments. You can use ssh-pageant to automate SSH connections from those shells, which is useful for services