2009/1/9 Josh Bialkowski <josh.bialkowski_at_gmail.com>:
> To the documentation maintainer,
>
> I have a suggestion for the documentation in Appendix G, "Test using
> PuTTY" (G.5). In the docs it says
>
>> Click on Open and you should see a telnet style login
>> prompt. Use svnuser as the user name and if all is
>> well you should connect directly without being
>> prompted for a password.
>
> However, in the setup section, we setup a key with a passphrase so in
> fact PuTTY will say something like:
>
>> login as: ######
>> Authenticating with public key "imported-openssh-key"
>> Passphrase for key "imported-openssh-key":
>
> where imported-openssh-key is the default text in the "comment" field
> in the puttygen conversion tool. True this is not a _password_ prompt
> from the server, but it still confused me a little as I'm not all
> _that_ familiar with ssh and security and all that. From reading, it
> seems this is needed by PuTTY to decode the private key before sending
> it to the server (details are fuzzy for me). Anyhow you can avoid
> having to type that in by running Pageant, which is the putty agent
> (task-bar docked program that will store passphrases for decoding
> private keys). In this case you actually will connect without being
> prompted for a password and then the user can connect without typing
> in any passwords.
What do you suggest as an alternative text? Sorry, I have never used
PuTTY myself - this is text contributed by others.
Simon
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Received on 2009-01-10 22:54:26 CET