Notes for using ssh-agent
It has come to my attention that there is an issue with ssh-agent, this
is not a problem with the installer, but is a problem with the cygwin
binaries
themselves.
I have chosen to identify this in case it is useful to anybody else
using the ssh-agent
software (which is likely a rather small majority)
The application implies that is has exported SSH_AUTH_SOCK and
SSH_AGENT_PID, however that
does not appear to be the case. You have to manually set these from a
command prompt
in order for it to work correctly
C:\Users\test>ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
C:\Users\test>ssh-agent.exe
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-K8jqcJtFYSLw/agent.20604; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=18844; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 18844;
C:\Users\test>ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
.....
C:\Users\test>set SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-K8jqcJtFYSLw/agent.20604
C:\Users\test>set SSH_AGENT_PID=18844
C:\Users\test>ssh-add
C:\Users\test>
A batch file can be used to work around this automatically
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims==; " %%i in ('call ssh-agent') do (
if "echo" neq "%%i" (
set %%i=%%j
setx %%i %%j )
)