Re: SSH authentication

On 2/20/2007 6:34 AM, chachi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to let users authenticate with their ssh passphrases?
> Do you know a howto which describes how to implent this?

It is possible, but it's very inconvenient. A typical svn interaction
with the repository may involve multiple ssh connections, so the user
would be prompted multiple times.

A much more pleasant way to work is to use public key authentication,
and an agent on the client side to handle the authentication requests.
Unfortunately the details of doing this depend on your ssh
implementation: OpenSSH, Putty and the commercial SSH are all
different. If you're on Windows, you should be using TortoiseSVN, and
it only works with Putty, but OpenSSH is more common on other platforms.

Duncan Murdoch

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Received on Tue Feb 20 12:41:29 2007