Windows clients and PuTTY

[Nate Finch]

That seems pretty valid, and with a decent error message when we can't find
it, it should be pretty easy for the user to fix (could we give a link the
website, or is that not kosher?)
On Dec 3, 2013 6:56 PM, "David Cheney" <david.cheney at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's a good point. The problem comes when they don't have putty,
> or
> > if they do, we don't know where it is (putty isn't an installed
> application,
> > it's a standalone exe, so it can live anywhere... Mine always just lived
> in
> > my downloads folder). I'm not sure what the best solution for that is.
> > There's a bunch of not great work around.
>
> If we can make the restriction that it must live in %PATH% that sounds
> preferable to
>
> a. writing our own ssh client
> b. adding another configuration value to environments.yaml, especially
> as that file has no concept of global configuration, only per
> environment configuration.
>
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2013 6:44 PM, "David Cheney" <david.cheney at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> :) Nice.
> >>
> >> The big problem with using the go ssh client is not the ssh support,
> >> but the terminal handling. To work properly on the remote side you
> >> need to request a PTY when setting up the shell session. That causes
> >> the remote shell to send lots of advanced messages, like 'how wide is
> >> your screen', etc, which need to be handled or you just get poop on
> >> your screen. Interfacing that with the W32 console subsystem sounds
> >> like a major headache.
> >>
> >> I think for the windows cli the best experience would be to fire off
> >> putty.exe, so the user has all their normal putty customization
> >> necessary and doesn't have to use ssh though the crippled win32
> >> console.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I wonder if anyone has written an ssh client for go...
> >> >
> >> > On Dec 3, 2013 6:10 PM, "David Cheney" <david.cheney at canonical.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I *think* the putty cli command is something like pssh, we can look
> it
> >> >> up. I think this is pretty easy to attempt as we can detect when the
> >> >> user is running windows and use an alternative command invocation.
> >> >>
> >> >> Who wants to raise the issue ?
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Marco Ceppi <marco at ondina.co> wrote:
> >> >> > We have docs on creating keys for windows users, but not on how to
> >> >> > set
> >> >> > up
> >> >> > PuTTY https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/getting-started-keygen-win.htmlWe
> >> >> > should
> >> >> > probably expand these to installing PuTTY
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Tim Penhey <
> tim.penhey at canonical.com>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hi folks,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I watch the Ask Ubuntu questions around Juju, and saw one
> yesterday
> >> >> >> that
> >> >> >> I think we need to get better docs around.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The user was saying he couldn't edit the files on the machines
> that
> >> >> >> Juju
> >> >> >> started.  This had me going "huh?".
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I should have twigged immediately at the use of Filezilla, but it
> >> >> >> became
> >> >> >> obvious when someone else suggested just using 'juju ssh' and the
> >> >> >> error
> >> >> >> was that 'juju not found in %PATH%'.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Do we have docs that help people set up PuTTY on windows, enabling
> >> >> >> it
> >> >> >> for juju, and making sure that the key is uploaded?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >> >> Tim
> >> >> >>
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