Hi Karl, Karl M wrote: > Hi HS... > > You can use keychain (a package available from setup.exe). > > I do something like > > ssh-add -l >/dev/null 2>&1 > if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then > ssh-add > fi > > in my .bash_profile, because keychain is slow when I launch several > windows.
Okay, I will try that. BTW, just out of curosity, is using keychain only one of the methods to achieve this or is it the only method? I mean, is it possible to do this without keychain or any other packages and just with ssh and rsync and login/logout files and environment variables? > > Why do you kill the agent when you log out? (Windows will kill it when > you log off from windows.) Currently I was starting ssh-agent in cygwin command prompt window. And if I did not kill ssh-agent the window would not close upon exit. By killing if from .bash_logout solved that problem. thanks, ->HS > If you want to keep the agent around from one login to the next, you can > launch the agent as a service. I used to do that with keychain, but for > performance reasons, I use ssh-agent and ssh-add directly. I plan on > proposing a package for doing this. > > HTH, > > ...Karl > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
