cygport improvements: upload, fish, src_prep_fini_hook
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 7 15:56:00 GMT 2015
On Jan 5 05:43, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > You're right, this isn't pretty. :-( Any progress since then?
>
> Well, I had a good idea: set up a shared (ControlMaster) ssh connection first,
> in order to get the authentication out of the way, then have the sftp batch step
> use the shared connection.
>
> Unfortunately it seems that that idea isn't going to work, because although I
> didn't know it at first, ssh shared connections don't work in Cygwin. (Unless
> something has changed - no answer yet to
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00010.html .)
Lots of stuff accumulated during vacation...
The problem is, SSH connection sharing is implemented using local socket
descriptor passing, which we don't have, sorry.
> Other possible ideas:
>
> * Write an expect script to look for a password prompt, pass it on to the user
> if it comes, otherwise go on with the batch sftp.
>
> * Start sftp as a bash coproc, and write bash code to look for the password
> prompt in the output. I tried this a bit but again it seems that sftp
> suppresses the password prompt if it detects that its stdin isn't coming from a
> TTY.
What about trying to enforce a tty?
sftp ... -o RequestTTY=force
[...time passes...]
No, that doesn't work.
> Even if those ideas can be made to work, none of them is clearly better than the
> one I described before. All add complexity and depend on screen scraping.
>
> It's vexing that it's so hard to find a solution to such a simple problem:
> prompt the user for a password if and only if one is needed.
Indeed. Here's another crazy idea.
- Look if ssh-agent is running (SSH_AGENT_PID non-empty?)
- If not, start ssh-agent and ssh-add. This asks for the passphrase,
if any.
- run sftp
- If the script started ssh-agent, run eval $(ssh-agent -k)
Corinna
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