[darcs-users] [issue1371] darcs assumes -p for SSH_PORT; but putty takes -P

Max Battcher me at worldmaker.net
Sun May 30 17:21:45 UTC 2010


On 05/30/2010 03:04 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Max Battcher<me at worldmaker.net>  writes:
>
>> So any good Darcs on Windows guide will have to explain SSH keys and
>> agents (pageant), because PuTTY's agent doesn't do some of the
>> auto-launch, auto-cookie "magic" that OpenSSH does (particularly with
>> the (awesome) super-agents that modern distros provide).
>
> Do you have a reference for this "super-agent magic"?

Potentially veering way off topic, but Gnome's "Seahorse" rocks:

http://live.gnome.org/Seahorse

Seahorse, more often boringly referred to as "Passwords and Encryption 
Keys" is the default SSH agent for many Gnome-based distros (including 
and in particular Ubuntu). It stores your full SSH keychain and is 
always running/accessible. It will also optionally permanently store 
your unlock passphrases (in gnome-keyring). As an SSH agent it will 
prompt you for passphrase unlocks in a nice Gtk prompt window explaining 
why its prompting you. It provides nice GUI-based mechanisms for new key 
generation and for uploading public keys to remote .ssh/authorized_keys 
files.

It's a whole bundle of set it up and forget it's awesome. It makes SSH 
key management nearly painless.

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--Max Battcher--
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