ssh woes on windows

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Mark Hammond wrote:
| Looking at this a little more:
|
|> 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.
|
| get_vendor() in ssh.py first checks the environment, then it does the
_get_vendor_by_inspection() thing, and if that fails, it falls back to
_default_ssh_vendor, which is paramiko.
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| _get_vendor_by_inspection() searches for ssh.exe and plink.exe on the
path. It seems to me that it makes sense for _get_vendor_by_inspection()
to come *last* - only if there is no paramiko available should we
fallback to searching.  Something like:
|

Paramiko should generally be present, because we need it for sftp handling.

I personally prefer to use 'ssh' if it is available, because I already
have ssh-agent, and a real ssh key, etc.

I would be fine with having an ssh check first, and a plink check last,
or removing plink in general.

John
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