Basic questions

[John Arbash Meinel]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Martin Albisetti пишет:
>> On Jan 22, 2008 4:19 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>>> 2. Has anyone used it with PSFTP or PLINK (Putty components) from 
>>> Windows?
>>
>> We use putty extensively at work with bzr and never had any problems.
>> Bzr checks internally for plink, so it is supported.
> 
> Incorrect. Bzr still supports plink.exe (but not PSFTP)
> *but* no more automatically found and use plink.exe because
> of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/107593
> 
> To force plink.exe instead of paramiko you need to set environment variable
> BZR_SSH to value 'plink'.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/107593/comments/10
> 
> 

Just to finish this discussion...

While we don't directly use plink any more, paramiko (our ssh/sftp 
library) does talk directly to Pageant. So if you have putty installed 
and set up pageant to use an ssh key, then you don't actually have to 
use plink to do the connection.

At this point I haven't heard of anyone who found paramiko's ssh 
handling to be worse than plink. If there are specific reasons to use 
plink, then you can override it as Alexander mentioned. If you *do* 
that, please let us know so we can at least be aware of the deficiency.

John
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