[ITP] win-ssh-agent 1.07

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Thu Nov 3 13:52:00 GMT 2011


> I'd like to package and maintain win-ssh-agent for Cygwin.
> With the win-ssh-agent, we can use the ssh-agent (available inthe
> cygwin openssh) in the more smart way.
> Normally, we need to start all relevant programs, which mightneed to
> use the ssh, as child processes of the shell(e.g. bash) in which you
> eval'ed the ssh-agent.  Because, theprograms must be able to refer to
> environment variables thatset by the ssh-agent.
> The win-ssh-agent enables all programs to refer to theenvironment
> variables of the ssh-agent, i.e. theSSH_AUTH_SOCK.  Now, we no longer
> need to start programs aschild processes of the shell.

+1 Sounds useful.



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