ssh-agent, keychain, and Vista [Was: Re: Vista + cygwin basics]

2008-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Karl M wrote: Karl M wrote: Just a comment...keychain is pretty heavy for what you get in Cygwin. My solution was to launch ssh-agent as a service (one for each user that wants it). That service spawns the agent and updates the user environment in the registry so that other processes can find

Re: ssh-agent, keychain, and Vista [Was: Re: Vista + cygwin basics]

2008-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: It seems to do what I want, but as you say, keychain does slow down the login process quite a bit. Other drawbacks to my approach: (1) the console user's ssh-agent does not survive logoff (but remote logons' ssh-agents do, since they all live in session 0). (2)