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Re: Problems with SSH on Windows
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Dewey M. Sasser |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with SSH on Windows |
Date: |
30 Mar 2003 11:25:50 -0500 |
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Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
> > Allen Unueco wrote:
> >> Why does this need to happen for Windows? SSH on Linux also has
> >> this same prompt and cvs works fine with it.
> I'm not sure what the issue with Windows is. On UNIX, SSH finds and
> grabs the user's tty, bypassing any intermediate parent processes
> entirely and avoiding the issue.
> Windows has no equivalent of TTYs as far as I know. If the writers of
> PuTTY aren't trying to keep their command lines and GUIs seperate, a
> pop-up password request box might work, but you'll have to deal with
> PuTTY's developers on that one.
Another option is to install cygwin. I use the cygwin ssh client with
both cygwin's CVS port *and* the CVS client from cvsnt.org. It has no
problem prompting for password or passphrase when invoked via CVS.
I also use the TortoiseCVS client (Windows explorer extension) with
PuTTY on Windows -- Tortoise handles the prompting with a pop-up.
If you start using the cygwin ssh I have a few shell scripts which
make sharing the ssh agent between different sessions very easy.
--
Dewey M. Sasser <dewey@sasser.com>