2015-10-13 9:46 GMT+02:00 Robert Withers <robert.w.with...@gmail.com>:
> Would the SSH package in Cryptography help you? > I don't know. I just delegate to git for handling the ssh stuff; Pharo has little to gain by manipulating ssh by itself in that use case (but, overalll, I believe ssh support to be usefull). I'll have a look. Thierry > > thanks, > Robert > > On 10/13/2015 03:36 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote: > >> >> >> 2015-10-13 9:29 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com >> <mailto:i.uh...@gmail.com>>: >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Thierry Goubier >> <thierry.goub...@gmail.com <mailto:thierry.goub...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Hernàn, >> >> I'm not familiar with the use of ssh-agent. Could it interfere >> with someone using his own keys (i.e. without ssh-agent)? Would >> this be necessary for linux or mac use of ssh-agent, or is ssh / >> git correctly done on those platforms to query ssh-agent on its >> own if it is already running? >> >> >> I'm using ssh-agent on both windows and linux, and having >> aforementioned variables (SSH_AGENT_PID, SSH_AUTH_SOCK) in the >> environment is enough for git to automatically use it, no need to >> prefix it. >> >> >> This is what I expected. Is that different under Windows? >> >> >> In any case I have notes about the implementation: >> >> 1. it assumes that it runs only on windows (it looks like this >> should be generic code) >> >> >> Well, as you said above, the environment under Linux/Mac takes care of >> the interaction with ssh-agent... so there is no need to handle that on >> the Linux/Mac side (OSProcess) versus Windows (ProcessWrapper). >> >> 2. it assumes that ssh-agent will be always installed in a specific >> path, it should rely on PATH instead >> >> >> Noted. >> >> 3: Windows has its own system for global env variables, so why not >> use that? >> So instead of doing some process lookups you simply get >> $Env:SSH_AUTH_SOCK" (well, I use powershell... but the bat version >> is I think %SSH_AUTH_SOCK%) >> >> >> But the thing is: if I can query for environment variables in Windows, >> then so can the git command as well, which would mean it would pick-up >> the use of ssh-agent, no? Or should I try to manipulate the process >> >> Anyway, I appreciate you're having a look at it. Thanks! >> >> Thierry >> >> >> Peter >> >> >> >
