Re: using ssh-agent in cygwin

2021-07-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jesse Thompson! > *TL:DR;* I'm looking for options to reliably start and manage an ssh-agent > daemon in Cygwin. I'm using ssh-pageant myself. But I do have a compatible wrapper for ssh-agent. > Using ssh-agent in cygwin seems very compelling. Oh? >

Re: using ssh-agent in cygwin

2021-07-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:44 PM Jesse Thompson wrote: > *TL:DR;* I'm looking for options to reliably start and manage an ssh-agent > daemon in Cygwin. I recommend the "keychain" package, which is available in Cygwin. You'd add something like the following to your shell initialization scripts: /u

using ssh-agent in cygwin

2021-07-19 Thread Jesse Thompson via Cygwin
*TL:DR;* I'm looking for options to reliably start and manage an ssh-agent daemon in Cygwin. Using ssh-agent in cygwin seems very compelling. OpenSSH client config AddKeysToAgent option and ssh-agent -t option allow me to keep keys unlocked for limited times the way that I'd like, and u