Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote:
> > I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee.
> > Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I
> > could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of
> > McAfee (version 10?) disabling McAfee doesn't make any difference
> > anymore. Only an uninstall of McAfee makes things work again but this is
> > not an option.
> >
> > A search of the mailing lists yielded other reports of the same problem
> > but no real solutions.
> >
> > After some digging in the source I found that ssh-agent keeps waiting in
> > the select for ssh-add to connect. For whatever reason ssh-add seems to
> > be unable to connect to the AF_LOCAL socket created by ssh-agent.
> >
> > Attached the strace files from ssh-agent and ssh-add as well as the
> > cygcheck output.
>
> DELETED Ridiculous amount of stuff that probably should have been in
> an attachment.

Um, check again, there were about five lines other than what is quoted 
above (and those were 'hi' and a sig) that /weren't/ in attachments. :-)

Good advice, though, hopefully it will help Tim.

--
Matthew
KDE: Desktop Excellence


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