ssh-add under cygwin
I'm having trouble with ssh-agent under cygwin. The crazy part is that it was working, but stopped after a reboot one day. Here is an example:
sthomas@sthomas-tcg ~
$ keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa
KeyChain 2.6.8; http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/
Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL
* Initializing /home/sthomas/.keychain/sthomas-tcg-sh file...
* Initializing /home/sthomas/.keychain/sthomas-tcg-csh file...
* Initializing /home/sthomas/.keychain/sthomas-tcg-fish file...
* Starting ssh-agent
* Adding 1 ssh key(s)...
Enter passphrase for /home/sthomas/.ssh/id_rsa:
Identity added: /home/sthomas/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/sthomas/.ssh/id_rsa)
sthomas@sthomas-tcg ~
$ ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
sthomas@sthomas-tcg ~
$ ssh stage
Enter passphrase for key '/home/sthomas/.ssh/id_rsa':
I found this user who is having the exact same problem as me
Issues with ssh-add
Unfortunately I don't have enough rep to comment there. I tried following his instructions but the first step is not working for me:
sthomas@sthomas-tcg ~
$ `eval ssh-agent`
-bash: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ejseksys5348/agent.5348;: No such file or directory
Anyone know what is going wrong here? The file does exist but the missing filename changes on each execution.
sthomas@sthomas-tcg ~
$ ls /tmp/ssh-ejseksys5348/agent.5348
/tmp/ssh-ejseksys5348/agent.5348
Solution 1:
OK, that other Serverfault.com answer has a typo.
The right thing you want to run is:
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-agent
spits out a bunch of shell statements to set environmental variables. The eval
runs them in the current shell. You can invoke ssh-agent
that way, or run ssh-agent
and then copy-paste its output into your current shell for the same effect.