bzr+ssh on Windows?
Raindog
raindog at macrohmasheen.com
Sun Oct 17 22:49:00 BST 2010
Using cygwin with ssh-agent is the easiest I think. There are a lot of really easy to follow guides for this, especially if you look for git on windows guides
"Maritza Mendez" <martitzam at gmail.com> wrote:
>Yes I am aware of the ssh agent approach and pageant in particular.
>I'm sure that works well. But it is one more piece of software to set
>up and support for my teams workflow. I have dozens of potential
>users on windows boxes and I need them focused on their work, not on
>the tools. I'm actually not sure how much an ssh agent would help
>anyway because on windows I'm not even being prompted once for my
>passphrase. So my preference is to figure out how my windows ssh/rsa
>environment differs from linux and address the issue directly.
>
>Thanks
>~M
>
>On 8/22/10, Eugene Wee <crystalrecursion at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi again. Thanks to your help today, I have my linux boxes all happy
>>> using
>>> bzr+ssh to access a remote repository. Cool.
>>>
>>> Now I want to get my Windows boxes doing the same. I know there are some
>>> cygwin users here, so I'm hoping you can help me out.
>>
>> Have you considered using the pageant ssh agent from PuTTY instead?
>> You can import the keys from your Linux box, or generate new ones
>> using PuTTYgen. It looks like the wiki page that you linked to already
>> mentions this option.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eugene Wee
>>
>>
>
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