[nfbcs] help requested with cygwin & ssh-

[Graham Mehl]

Hi Erin, I am fairly certain it is not a firewall issue, because I can ssh
out of my windows box without a problem. But I will double check.

 

Hi Joseph, What you described is exactly what I am experiencing. I attempted
to try the command you suggested and that appears to work for what ever
reason. 

So I dropped the two lines you suggested into a shell script and then I run
the shell script every time I log into cygwin. Thanks. 

 

A follow up question. As far as I know, there is no concept of root in
cygwin.  So if someone else logs onto my windows box with their own account
and run the same cygwin executeable they will get their own home directory.
If I create a read only file (chmod 400 <filename>) will the file
permissions be enforced and only I will be able to read the file? in cygwin
or as a windows file on the machine? Will an administrator on the windows
machine be able to see and read my read only file? The reason why I am
asking is the read only file would have some sensitive informaition and
boils down to a security issue.

 

respectfully,

graham 

-- blind at trailstone.com

 

Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:26:29 -0600

From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <devnull-nfbcs at pcdesk.net>

To: Aaron Cannon <cannona at fireantproductions.com>,    NFB in Computer

      Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>

Subject: Re: [nfbcs] help requested with cygwin & ssh-add

 

The problem you're having I think is that you're not importing the necessary
environment variables. ssh-agent creates sockets and such. 

ssh-add uses environment variables in order to know where to find those. 

You have a couple of options to fix this. First, before we do anything else,
try starting ssh-agent using this command instead of simply using ssh-agent
by itself.

 

eval `ssh-agent -s`

 

Then use ssh-add and see if the key can be added. If it can, that was your
issue. You will need to either run ssh-agent in this way from now on, or
else make arrangements to load the necessary variables in multiple shells. I
personally have a bit of code in my .profile which will load the necessary
data;