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Re: FAQ Patch (was Re: SSH Credential Caching)

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-08-11 16:39:45 CEST

David Ripton <dripton@ripton.net> writes:
> * www/project_faq.html
> (change-log-msg): New question and answer.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's actually "ssh-auth-cache". I'm tweaking now & will commit.

-Karl

> Index: www/project_faq.html
> ===================================================================
> --- www/project_faq.html (revision 10592)
> +++ www/project_faq.html (working copy)
> @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
> <li><a href="#ignore-commit">I have a file in my project that every
> developer must change, but I don't want those local mods to ever be
> committed. How can I make 'svn commit' ignore the file?</a></li>
> +<li><a href="#ssh-auth-cache">When I access a repository using
> +svn+ssh, my password is not cached in ~/.subversion/auth/. How do
> +I avoid having to type it so often?</a></li>
> +</a></li>
>
> <p>
> <strong>Troubleshooting:</strong>
> @@ -1276,7 +1280,22 @@
> to its parent directory's svn:ignore property, so it doesn't show up
> as '?' in the 'svn status' command.</p>
>
> +<![CDATA[=========================================================]]>
>
> +<h3><a name="ssh-auth-cache">When I access a repository using
> +svn+ssh, my password is not cached in ~/.subversion/auth/. How do
> +I avoid having to type it so often?</a></h3>
> +
> +<p>ssh has its own scheme for caching authentication tokens. It
> +works for the passphrases on ssh keys, not for OS-level passwords,
> +so you'll need to do some public key setup.</p>
> +
> +<p>OpenSSH includes ssh-keygen to create the keys, ssh-agent to
> +cache passphrases, and ssh-add to add passphrases to the cache.
> +keychain is a popular helper script to simplify using ssh-agent.
> +PuTTY, a popular alternative ssh client for Windows, comes with
> +PuTTYgen to import OpenSSH keys and pageant to cache passphrases.</p>
> +
> <![CDATA[=========================================================]]>
>
> <p>
>
>
> --
> David Ripton dripton@ripton.net
>
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