win32/sftp issues

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Thu Nov 1 07:10:31 GMT 2007


Andrew Voznytsa пишет:
> If I try
> 
> bzr push sftp://user:password@host/path/dir
> 
> then I’m getting bzr crash. According to my investigation it is because 
> of putty presence in the PATH.

Actually not putty.exe itself, but plink.exe.
There is open bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/107593

I think we need to disable or remove plink.exe support, because
nobody wants working on this bug.

> If I remove putty then everything works 
> just great (and note – it does not ask for password and use this one 
> supplied in url; not very secure but ok for me).
> 
> Next:
> 
> bzr co –lightweight sftp://user:password@host/path/dir
> 
> I’m asked for password a few times even if it was supplied in URL.

I'd recommend you to add your public SSH key to your server, and then 
use pageant to load your SSH key. It's very convenient for me.

Alexander




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