ssh-agent in Cygwin?

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Dec 18 00:09:52 EST 2009


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > We're adding agent support to libssh2 and I'd like to know if the
> > OpenSSH ssh-agent runs also in Cygwin, and if so how it does IPC?
> > Pageant will be supported, but if it makes sense and there is little
> > overhead it would be nice to also cover Cygwin.
> 
> I don't quite understand the question.  Cygwin's ssh-agent is
> working just like on other platforms, using AF_UNIX sockets.

Ok! Are those sockets somehow reachable from native win32?


//Peter


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