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useful cygwin ssh-agent script
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- Subject: useful cygwin ssh-agent script
- From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle at MIT dot EDU>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 14:37:26 -0400
This is n generations tweaked, but it's now useful for me under any of my
*nix hosts. Previously on win32 I was doing all kinds of nasty stuff with
setx to push these variables into the global NT environment space, but the
file approach is much simpler. (However, people should be cognizant of the
potential dangers of ssh-agent under cygwin [1], though under a local
netstat and remote portscan it does not appear that the port specified in
/tmp/ssh-foo is accessible to anyone ...?)
[1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg00063.html
SSH_ENV=$HOME/.ssh/environment
function start_agent {
echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
/usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > ${SSH_ENV}
echo succeeded
chmod 600 ${SSH_ENV}
. ${SSH_ENV} > /dev/null
/usr/bin/ssh-add;
}
# Source SSH settings, if applicable
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
. ${SSH_ENV} > /dev/null
#ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin
ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
start_agent;
}
else
start_agent;
fi
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Regards, http://www.mit.edu/~reagle/
Joseph Reagle E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E
MIT LCS Research Engineer at the World Wide Web Consortium.
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