cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

[mwoehlke]

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote:
>> I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee.
>> Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I
>> could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of
>> McAfee (version 10?) disabling McAfee doesn't make any difference
>> anymore. Only an uninstall of McAfee makes things work again but this is
>> not an option.
>>
>> A search of the mailing lists yielded other reports of the same problem
>> but no real solutions.
>>
>> After some digging in the source I found that ssh-agent keeps waiting in
>> the select for ssh-add to connect. For whatever reason ssh-add seems to
>> be unable to connect to the AF_LOCAL socket created by ssh-agent.
>>
>> Attached the strace files from ssh-agent and ssh-add as well as the
>> cygcheck output.
> 
> DELETED Ridiculous amount of stuff that probably should have been in
> an attachment.

Um, check again, there were about five lines other than what is quoted 
above (and those were 'hi' and a sig) that /weren't/ in attachments. :-)

Good advice, though, hopefully it will help Tim.

-- 
Matthew
KDE: Desktop Excellence


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