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hooliz
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 Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: [solved] ssh-agent and ssh-add problems |
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Hey, i think i have a problem with ssh-agent and ssh-add
it appears as follows:
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SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-aoAREl1818/agent.1818; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=1819; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 1819;
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it looks like it runs ok but
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serv .ssh # ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
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and finally killing ssh-agent says
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serv .ssh # ssh-agent -k
SSH_AGENT_PID not set, cannot kill agent
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the socket looks like it is in place
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serv .ssh # ls /tmp/ssh-aoAREl1818/agent.1818
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do you have any ideas what am i doing wrong ... ?
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Hu
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| You are starting the agent incorrectly. It prints out the shell commands necessary to set up the environment for future programs to find the agent. Since you did not set those environment variables, subsequent programs, including ssh-agent -k, cannot find the original agent to interact with it. As noted in the manual, you should start it with eval `ssh-agent` so that the output is used to update your environment. |
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hooliz
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| yep you were right i tried it with 'ssh-add' instead `ssh-add` that's what confused me.... thanx |
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