bzr+ssh on Windows?

[John Barstow]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I also thought that it would be nice to have authentication.conf either
> contain or point to my private key.  I was trying to avoid setting up a
> Windows replacement for ssh-agent of course.  But then I started thinking...
> bzr should not really need to know any more about protocols than absolutely
> necessary to be a consumer of protocols.  Making bzr responsible for
> accessing private keys essentially puts bzr in the role of ssh-agent
> handling sensitive data and violates separation of concerns.  And as much as
> I admire the brilliance of the bzr-core devs -- truly -- I'm not sure I want
> them spending their time writing security code.  Better to piggyback on
> existing trusted solutions and let them stick to making bzr even greater.

Well, it would just be passed as a parameter to the underlying ssh
implementation (which would actually do the file access etc) so I
don't see that as a real issue.

But I can live with punting to .ssh/config so long as we document how
to set it up.