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Re: [starksb@ebi.ac.uk: 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3: ssh-add fails on win98: "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."]


On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:05:55PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thursday, 13 September, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
> 
> CV> Egor,
> 
> CV> is it possible that this is a result of a failed secret check?
> 
> CV> I have straced ssh-add on a 98 system and the connect to the
> CV> ssh-agent fails with WSAECONNREFUSED.  The strace output also
> CV> shows an `accept from unauthorized server' message.  I wouldn't
> CV> understand why, though.
> 
> hmm. i don't see any "accept from unauthorized server" strings in
> David's strace. did they appear in ssh-add or in ssh-agent output?
> An strace sent to the list looks more like 'ssh-agent' isn't running
> when ssh-add is started. David, can you check it? if it's up and
> running, it'd also be useful to see if it listens to inbound
> connections. You can use 'netstat -a' to list all LISTENing ports on
> your host.

My strace shows the "accept from unauthorized server" string generated
in ssh-add in the connect call.  Are you interested to get my strace
too?  I had started the following:

	strace -f ssh-agent bash
	ssh-add

which result in strace output from ssh-agent, bash and ssh-add in one
trace file.

Corinna

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