cygport improvements: upload, fish, src_prep_fini_hook
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jan 19 08:51:00 GMT 2015
On Jan 17 18:25, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > You're right, this isn't pretty. :-( Any progress since then?
>
> OK, here's what I've worked out.
>
> If SSH_KEY is set (in the environment, or in ~/.cygport.conf), then cygport will
> load that key into an ssh-agent if necessary.
Minor nit: SSH_KEY as env var is so generic and easily confused with
the variables set by ssh-agent. Wouldn't something with CYGPORT in its
name be better? CYGPORT_SSH_KEY?
> * If no ssh-agent is running, cygport will start one and load the key, then kill
> the agent when the upload is done.
>
> * If an ssh-agent is running but the key isn't already loaded into it, cygport
> will load the key, then unload it again when the upload is done.
>
> In either of the above cases, ssh-add will prompt for a passphrase if needed
> when it loads the key. So in this case, the user will be prompted for a
> passphrase if and only if one is needed. Hooray.
>
> If SSH_KEY is not set, then it's just too hard to figure out what key ssh will
> use. To figure that out, we'd have to reproduce a bunch of logic in ssh,
> including parsing the ssh config file, and that's not going to happen. So, in
> this case we just give up and give lftp the connect string
> sftp://cygwin@cygwin.com, which will cause it to prompt for a passphrase every
> time.
This puzzles me a bit. Even if an ssh-agent is running? Does lftp
utilize a running ssh-agent?
Corinna
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