[RFC] using plink.exe on windows as ssh client?

[Lukáš Lalinský]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> On svn there is config parameter to specify ssh client. So on windows
> one can specify
> 
> ssh = path/plink.exe -l user -i path/key.ppk
> 
> and works with any SSH keys for authorisation.
> 
> Why bzr does not support usage of custom SSH private key file?

Paramiko supports Putty's key agent, you can use that.

> It's related to bug 70398: https://launchpad.net/bugs/70398

The problem here is that Paramiko has a different API to add new hostkeys and
the old dict-like access doesn't work properly (at least now the way bzr uses
it). See:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/16525

-Lukáš