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PuTTYcyg Agent Forwarding support? #15

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
> What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open PuttyCyg
2. Set Hostname to "-"
3. Set Connection type to "Cygterm"
4. Make sure Connection -> SSH -> Auth -> "Allow agent forwarding" is enabled
5. Click open
6. Run "env | grep SSH_AUTH_SOCK"

> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The output does not show the environment variable being set, indicating
agent forwarding is not supported. Instead, I expected the environment
variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK would be set.

> Which version of PuTTYcyg are you using?

PuTTYcyg 20071202

> Which version of Windows?

Windows XP

> What version of Cygwin?

1.5.25

> Do you have a dual-core system or multiple CPUs?

Dual-core.

> Any firewall software installed?

No.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mvs...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
(Of course, Pageant should be running too)

Original comment by mvs...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The cygterm backend has nothing to do with the SSH backend.  I'm pretty sure 
that the
SSH tab should not be accessible while configuring Cygterm, so that may be a UI 
bug.

Consider using something like keychain to automatically setup your SSH agent.

If you are asking about integrating pageant with the Cygwin OpenSSH (allowing
Cygwin's SSH command to use keys managed by pageant), then that's a different 
matter
entirely.  I believe it involves making changes in either pageant or openssh or
developing a third-party shim.  In any case, it is not something which can be
activated by the "Allow agent forwarding" option in PuTTY.

Original comment by medgar123 on 21 Jan 2009 at 8:54