I've been using OpenSSH with Cygwin for a while now, very successfully. Thanks to all who put this together.
I'd like to set up my machine for remote logins now, which makes me much more security conscious: using an old version of OpenSSH is not really an option. However, I can't find a way to get the latest OpenSSH to work without messing up ssh-agent in the sense that it becomes strongly attached to the bash window in which it was started. With the versions I've got now, I can start ssh-agent, and an ssh tunnel, and then close the window, and those processes keep running. This is very nice! As soon as I upgrade Cygwin, or the base files, this stops working. The bash window refuses to close; if I tell Windows to shut it down, it kills ssh-agent and ssh as well. If I only upgrade OpenSSH, it won't start, because it's been linked against a newer version of cygwin1.dll, and can't find an entry point it needs. Here's how I start ssh-agent: alias sshstart='ssh-agent >~/ssh-agent-pid; source ~/ssh-agent-pid; ssh-add' and here's ssh: alias sshtunnel='ssh -N -f -L [my tunnel] [my username] >/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null ' I've attached the /etc/setup/installed.db version database below listing the setup that works. Has anyone got ssh-agent working with a current OpenSSH release? Could you tell me the versions you have installed? Thanks in advance. Duncan Murdoch INSTALLED.DB 2 base-files base-files-1.1-1.tar.bz2 0 base-passwd base-passwd-1.1-1.tar.bz2 0 bash bash-2.05b-9.tar.bz2 0 bzip2 bzip2-1.0.2-2.tar.bz2 0 crypt crypt-1.0-1.tar.bz2 0 cvs cvs-1.11.0-1.tar.bz2 0 cygwin cygwin-1.3.22-1.tar.bz2 0 diff diff-1.0-1.tar.bz2 0 diffutils diffutils-2.8.1-1.tar.bz2 0 fileutils fileutils-4.1-1.tar.bz2 0 findutils findutils-4.1.7-4.tar.bz2 0 gawk gawk-3.1.2-2.tar.bz2 0 gdb gdb-20030919-1.tar.bz2 0 gdbm gdbm-1.8.0-5.tar.bz2 0 gettext gettext-0.11.5-1.tar.bz2 0 grep grep-2.5-1.tar.bz2 0 groff groff-1.18.1-2.tar.bz2 0 gzip gzip-1.3.3-4.tar.bz2 0 jpeg jpeg-6b-7.tar.bz2 0 less less-378-1.tar.bz2 0 lesstif lesstif-0.93.40-1.tar.bz2 0 libbz2_1 libbz2_1-1.0.2-2.tar.bz2 0 libgdbm libgdbm-1.8.0-5.tar.bz2 0 libgdbm-devel libgdbm-devel-1.8.0-5.tar.bz2 0 libiconv2 libiconv2-1.8-2.tar.bz2 0 libintl libintl-0.10.38-3.tar.bz2 0 libintl1 libintl1-0.10.40-1.tar.bz2 0 libintl2 libintl2-0.11.5-1.tar.bz2 0 libncurses5 libncurses5-5.2-1.tar.bz2 0 libncurses6 libncurses6-5.2-8.tar.bz2 0 libncurses7 libncurses7-5.3-1.tar.bz2 0 libpng10 libpng10-1.0.15-1.tar.bz2 0 libpopt0 libpopt0-1.6.4-4.tar.bz2 0 libPropList libPropList-0.10.1-3.tar.bz2 0 libreadline4 libreadline4-4.1-2.tar.bz2 0 libreadline5 libreadline5-4.3-2.tar.bz2 0 login login-1.7-1.tar.bz2 0 m4 m4-1.4-1.tar.bz2 0 man man-1.5j-2.tar.bz2 0 ncurses ncurses-5.3-1.tar.bz2 0 openssh openssh-3.5p1-3.tar.bz2 0 openssl openssl-0.9.7a-3.tar.bz2 0 openssl096 openssl096-0.9.6i-3.tar.bz2 0 patch patch-2.5.8-3.tar.bz2 0 pcre pcre-3.7-1.tar.bz2 0 readline readline-4.3-2.tar.bz2 0 rsync rsync-2.5.5-2.tar.bz2 0 sed sed-4.0.5-1.tar.bz2 0 sh-utils sh-utils-2.0.15-3.tar.bz2 0 tar tar-1.13.25-1.tar.bz2 0 tcltk tcltk-20030128-3.tar.bz2 0 termcap termcap-20020930-1.tar.bz2 0 terminfo terminfo-5.3-1.tar.bz2 0 texinfo texinfo-4.2-4.tar.bz2 0 textutils textutils-2.0.21-1.tar.bz2 0 tiff tiff-3.6.0-1.tar.bz2 0 vim vim-6.1.300-1.tar.bz2 0 w32api w32api-2.2-1.tar.bz2 0 which which-1.5-1.tar.bz2 0 zlib zlib-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2 0 _update-info-dir _update-info-dir-00158-1.tar.bz2 0 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
