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Re: SSH authentication

From: John Allen <john.allen_at_dublinux.net>
Date: 2007-02-20 17:51:44 CET

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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.
>
On Windows I'd recommend Eclipse with the Subclipse plugin, supports
public key auth, with remembering of passphrase
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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