ssh-agent + ssh-add on Win9x?

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Fri Oct 13 17:24:00 GMT 2000


Greetings,

Has anyone gotten ssh-agent + ssh-add to work on Win9x?  I use it all
the time on NT with no problems at all.

I'm using OpenSSH-2.2.0p1 (thanks Corinna!) on Win98, and both ssh and
scp work fine "stand-alone".  But I would also like them to work with
ssh-agent.

When I run ssh-agent + ssh-add I get something like this:

> starksb@STARKSB-P$ eval `ssh-agent`
> Agent pid 784679
> 
> starksb@STARKSB-P$ ssh-add
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

I do notice:

> starksb@STARKSB-P$ ls -lF $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
> srw-r--r--   1 starksb  unknown        15 Oct 14 00:37 /tmp/ssh-HL776243/agent.776243=

has a different permission than what I'm used to seeing on UNIX
(0700).  Is that the problem?  I know there's no way to get 0700, and
I don't want ntea.  Output from strace suggests that ssh-add doesn't
think it's a socket.

Attached below are output from:
	cygcheck -s -r -v
	strace ssh-agent
	strace ssh-add

Sorry for the 100K message.  Thanks for your help.

Regards,
David



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