Re: ssh-agent for openSSH does not export SSH_AUTH_SOCK..

From: Christian Koch (ordo_septenarius@t-online.de)
Date: 05/27/02 

From: Christian Koch <ordo_septenarius@t-online.de>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 10:50:17 +0200

Richard E. Silverman wrote:

> % man ssh-agent
> ...
> There are two main ways to get an agent setup: Either the agent
> starts a new subcommand into which some environment variables are
> exported, or 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. Later
> ssh(1) looks at these variables and uses them to establish a
> connection to the agent.
> ...
>
>> How can I solve that problem?
>
> % eval `ssh-agent -s`
>
thanks, you are right. Reading the man pages now more carefully...

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