Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.ssh-agent working and tested

[Justin Patrin]

On 2/20/07, Daniel Carosone <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:52:29PM -0800, Justin Patrin wrote:
> > I've also found out that if you serve you still need to enter your key
> > passphrase, even if it's in ssh-agent and commit, pull, and push work
> > fine. The problem is that decrypt_rsa() requires the private key to
> > decrypt. As far as I can see, ssh-agent has no protocol for decrypting
> > data so I'm not sure how this can be dealt with.
>
> By symmetry, you'll probably also need it for syncing with a server
> that requires auth?

Nope, pull, push, and sync all work fine with ssh-agent without
entering a password, which I assume means that decrypt_rsa() is only
used with serve.

> That particular aspect of the netsync protocol session setup needs to
> change anyway, perhaps it's not worth getting too hung up about.

Fine by me. I'm re-running tests after a propagate to see that everything works.

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Justin Patrin