setting ssh-add environment variables on Windows

From: Julie Bielski (JBIELSKI1_at_nc.rr.com)
Date: 10/25/03 

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 01:45:48 GMT

I'm running the OpenSSH for Windows client without a full cygwin
environment. Has anyone figured out a way to do a system-wide set of the
SSH_AUTH_SOCKET and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables under Windows? What
would be nice is if you could run ssh-agent from a login script, get
prompted once for your identiy passphrase, and then have these variables be
set for the duration of your session and available from each cmd window.
Seems impossible to do without a full cygwin install and access to a bash
shell, etc. Someone handy with DOS debug could probably figure out a clever
way to make this happen.

Julie

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