On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:52:20AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> 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.
I don't agree. I don't see why this couldn't be accomplished using standard UNIX tools and it seems like it might even be a potential security hole. I don't see the need to have this package in the distribution. cgf
