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Re: svn+ssh long-lived daemon

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:20:49 -0500

I've always felt the same, but now that I've used SSH more (with Git) I
kind of question it.

Are HTTP client certs much better than passwords? The cert itself still
has to be physically secured and if you protect the cert with a passphrase
then you have all of the same cache problems that passwords do.

With SSH there is infrastructure like ssh-agent that just does not exist
for HTTP.

Mark

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:

> With the right tooling both operations should be equivalent. Perhaps it is
> easier to spend time on that.
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> *From: *Philip Martin
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> *Subject: *Re: svn+ssh long-lived daemon
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> Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> writes:
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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2015-11-20 15:21:13 CET

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