cuviper/ssh-pageant — Issue #14: Pageant key not available under MinTTY
Author: dewarrn1
Created: 2012-01-11 20:16:48+00:00
State: open

I'm going to apologize in advance for not having a better sense of what my specific problem is, but after happily using ssh-pageant for a couple of years, a recent Cygwin update has broken something, and I can't identify the cause. Briefly, keys loaded through Pageant are no longer available under MinTTY, but work fine in Windows (through Putty, etc.). Some accompanying oddities:
- Although ssh-pageant is still called from my .bashrc file, the $SSH_AUTH_SOCK and $SSH_PAGEANT_PID environment variables are no longer assigned when opening MinTTY.
- Calling "eval $( ssh-pageant -q )" at the command line does assign those variables, but ssh sessions opened afterward return "Permission denied (publickey)", suggesting that Pageant's key files are still not available.

I've reinstalled Cygwin (now on 1.7.9), updated Pageant (v0.62), and am using ssh-pageant v1.1. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if there are any tests that I can run to help with the diagnosis, I'd be happy to try them. Thanks!