RE: HELP please! Why is the agent NOT recognized

Christopher.Fouts_at_infineon.com
Date: 08/16/04

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To: <dtucker@zip.com.au>

    BTW, ssh-agent $SHELL does what eval `ssh-agent` does...

    -chris

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Darren Tucker [mailto:dtucker@zip.com.au]
    >Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:46 PM
    >To: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC)
    >Cc: secureshell@securityfocus.com
    >Subject: Re: HELP please! Why is the agent NOT recognized
    >
    >
    >Christopher.Fouts@infineon.com wrote:
    >
    >> I have 2 machines, remote SSH server is a Linux (RH Fedora) and
    >> local SSH client is HPUX 10.20. I mimiced the steps I did to have
    >> SSH working for user1 for user2. user1 can tunnel through, but not
    >> user2. I gathered the following debug lines for the user2 session,
    >> and it seems like the agent I create is NOT recognized by ssh, at
    >> least I think so as evident from the "No agent" line midway down.
    >> I do...
    >> > ssh-agent $SHELL
    >> > ssh-add
    >
    >Try:
    >$ eval `ssh-agent`
    >$ ssh-add
    >
    >You need to "eval" the output of ssh-agent to set the environment
    >variables required to let ssh know how to find the agent.
    >
    >Recent versions of the ssh-agent man page make this somewhat clearer:
    >
    >[quote]
    >There are two main ways to get an agent set up: The first is
    >that the agent starts a new subcommand into which some
    >environment variables are exported, eg ssh-agent xterm &. The
    >second is that the agent prints the needed shell commands
    >(either sh(1) or csh(1) syntax can be generated) which can be
    >evalled in the calling shell, eg eval `ssh-agent -s` for
    >Bourne-type shells such as sh(1) or ksh(1) and eval `ssh-agent -c` for
    >csh(1) and derivatives.
    >[/quote]
    >
    >--
    >Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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    >experience usually comes from bad judgement.
    >

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