Re: Subclipse 0.9.33 Released

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:

> I believe that he is using JavaHL, which uses the "normal" ssh client and
> therefore works with the ssh-agent. JavaSVN uses a pure Java SSH library
> named JSch. In all likelihood that library does not work with ssh-agent.

'Fraid not. When I first started using Subclipse and discovered the
need to compile JavaHL which appeared to necessitate downloading and
compiling the whole of Subversion I bailed out and went for JavaSVN.
 
> A future version of Subclipse/JavaSVN is going to extend the current
> prompt to allow you to be prompted for your key file and passphrase with
> the option of allowing JavaSVN to cache that information.

I would vote for key file and use ssh-agent. Also since ~/.ssh/id_dsa
is a standard name perhaps this should be the default so you don't need
to specify the key file either.

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