Re: HELP please! Why is the agent NOT recognized

Christopher.Fouts@infineon.com wrote:

> I have 2 machines, remote SSH server is a Linux (RH Fedora) and 
> local SSH client is HPUX 10.20. I mimiced the steps I did to have
> SSH working for user1 for user2. user1 can tunnel through, but not
> user2. I gathered the following debug lines for the user2 session,
> and it seems like the agent I create is NOT recognized by ssh, at
> least I think so as evident from the "No agent" line midway down.
> I do...
> 	> ssh-agent $SHELL
> 	> ssh-add

Try:
$ eval `ssh-agent`
$ ssh-add

You need to "eval" the output of ssh-agent to set the environment 
variables required to let ssh know how to find the agent.

Recent versions of the ssh-agent man page make this somewhat clearer:

[quote]
There are two main ways to get an agent set up: The first is that the
agent starts a new subcommand into which some environment variables are
exported, eg ssh-agent xterm &.  The second is that the agent prints the
needed shell commands (either sh(1) or csh(1) syntax can be generated)
which can be evalled in the calling shell, eg eval `ssh-agent -s` for
Bourne-type shells such as sh(1) or ksh(1) and eval `ssh-agent -c` for
csh(1) and derivatives.
[/quote]

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