This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: New package: keychain-1.8-1 available for test
- From: Hack Kampbjørn <cygwin at hack dot kampbjorn dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:15:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: New package: keychain-1.8-1 available for test
- References: <3C986C69.1FD1C037@hack.kampbjorn.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Is there any objection to remove the test label from this package?
Has anybody tested it? Are there any problems that should be addresses
before releasing it as stable?
Hack 8-)
Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
>
> TEST RELEASE. PLEASE test that this new package works as expected and
> doesn't break anything. Report eventual problems back to the list.
>
> DESCRIPTION:
> Keychain is an OpenSSH key manager, typically run from
> ~/.bash_profile. When run, it will make sure ssh-agent is running; if
> not, it will start ssh-agent. It will redirect ssh-agent's output to
> ~/.ssh-agent, so that cron jobs that need to use ssh-agent keys can
> simply source this file and make the necessary passwordless ssh
> connections. In addition, when keychain runs, it will check with
> ssh-agent and make sure that the ssh RSA/DSA keys that you specified on
> the keychain command line have actually been added to ssh-agent. If not,
> you are prompted for the appropriate passphrases so that they can be
> added by keychain.
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/