[darcs-devel] Re: darcs patch: Extend runSSH function to accept argumen... (and 1 more)

[Benedikt Schmidt]

Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> writes:

> This is mainly to deal with darcs get --disable-ssh-cm
>
> The fact that this patch exists could mean one of the following
>
> 1) nobody up to now has every tried darcs get on ssh without
>    public key authentication or control master (which sounds
>    suspicious)
> 2) sftp has changed recently
> 3) not using stdin was a well-intentioned regression
>    from some previous patch
> 4) something weird is going on

Seems to be 2), just tested with an older sftp version and
it asks for the password in batchmode. But the older manpage
contains
| Since it lacks user interaction it should be
| used in conjunction with non-interactive authentication.
too.