ssh reads passphrase then just hangs

[Paul Kelly]

Hi,
    I was hoping that someone could cast some light on my 
ssh misery. 
 
    I wish to connect to one of my freeBSD servers via ssh 
from a NT environment so I installed B20 onto my NT server/SP4 
box.
 
    I ran mkpasswd and mkgroup to create the 
relevant /etc/ files.
 
    I then downloaded and extracted 
ssh-1.2.26-cygwinb20.tar.bz2 from Sergey 
Okhapkin excellent site.
    
    Setting CYGWIN to "  tty" and I tried 
to run ssh-agent. This fails with 
 
Bad 
modes or owner for directory '/tmp/ssh-pik' echo Agent creation failed, no 
agent started
 
    but ls -l /tmp gives 
 
total 
0 drwxrwxrwx   1 Administrators  
None                  
0 Nov  9 05:24 ssh-pik
 
or 
after I chown it:-
 
total 
0 drwxrwxrwa   1 
pik             
None                  
0 Nov  9 05:24 ssh-pik
 
O.K. I 
say I can do it by hand so I just run ssh1 -v sol and I 
get
 
SSH 
Version 1.2.26 [i586-pc-cygwin32], protocol version 1.5. Standard 
version.  Does not use RSAREF. KELLY: ssh_connect: getuid 1001 geteuid 
1001 anon 1 KELLY: Connecting to sol [194.223.245.192] port 22. KELLY: 
Connection established. KELLY: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software 
version 1.2.26 KELLY: Waiting for server public key. KELLY: Received 
server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). KELLY: Host 'sol' is 
known and matches the host key. KELLY: Initializing random; seed file 
//h//.ssh/random_seed KELLY: Encryption type: idea KELLY: Sent encrypted 
session key. KELLY: Installing crc compensation attack detector. KELLY: 
Received encrypted confirmation. KELLY: No agent. KELLY: Trying RSA 
authentication with key 'pik' KELLY: Received RSA challenge from 
server. Enter passphrase for RSA key 'pik':
 
    If I now enter the passphrase nothing happens, the 
window no longer responds to typing. 
I can 
recover my prompt with a ctl-brk.
 
    Please could someone point out the foolish mistake 
that I have injected into this procedure.
 
    Thanks,
        Paul
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