ssh woes on windows

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Mark Hammond wrote:
|> I thought at one point we disabled plink from being autodetected
|> because we can't pass it a password. Was the previous autodetect behavior
|> restored?
|>
|> Put another way, we disabled plink unless people explicitly requested
|> it, in favor of always using paramiko (since it can talk to pageant
|> anyway). I don't know why this would have changed.
|
| Bugger - I pasted the wrong bug before -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/107593 is the issue you describe and
the one I meant to reference.  That bug shows plink was disabled, then
"fixed" by adding a '-batch' option (which IIUC simply prevents even
trying to prompt for a password), then re-enabled.
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| plink documents: "-batch    disable all interactive prompts"
|
|> And I thought you always need an ssh-key to connect to launchpad. Not
|> for the xmlrpc stuff, but for bzr+ssh/sftp Launchpad doesn't allow
|> passwords.
|
| Yes, I was very surprised to find I could connect to launchpad without
my ssh key, but as that doesn't seem directly related to the issue I'm
talking about I didn't want to confuse the issue too much.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Mark


Well, that bug also involved prompting and hanging. So things *did* get
better.  I personally don't use plink, though I have it installed, but
it isn't on my path. I use cygwin's openssh.

John
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