On Jan 28 23:01, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 28.01.2012 22:00, Philip Lowman: > > There appears to be a regression in the most recent OpenSSH cygwin > > package (5.9p1-1, built 1/18/2012) related to the ssh-agent program. > > I see that too. > > > The ssh-add program is unable to add SSH keys because the ssh-agent > > program doesn't appear to be creating its socket file properly in > > /tmp. > > AFAIKT the socket file is created - but the ssh-agent process dies > shortly after being started. > > > 1. Install OpenSSH 5.9p1-1 in Cygwin (or upgrade to it) > > 2. Run the ssh-agent program spawning a bash shell > > $ ssh-agent bash > > This seems to happen only if ssh-agent is told to spawn another process.
This is supposed to be fixed in Cygwin 1.7.10. I just tried it and it worked for me. Please fetch a recent snapshot DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and try again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
