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

[Jari Aalto]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> 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?
>> 
>> It's related to bug 70398: https://launchpad.net/bugs/70398
> If you wanted to, it wouldn't be terribly hard to auto detect an ssh
> client, or even add a config entry to specify one. We just haven't had
> the need.
>
> Autodetecting Putty is a little bit of a pain, because by default,
> Windows doesn't put things in your executable search path.

I don't think bzr needs to try location for puttu, but just expect
that user configures hist PATH correctly. This would be standard way
of dealing any OS.

Jari