After launchpad-login, bzr branch lp: doesn't work without ssh keys

[Dražen Lučanin]

When a user issues launchpad-login to record their launchpad username, doing a bzr branch fails with an error:

    ConnectionReset reading response for 'BzrDir.open_2.1', retrying

This continues until the user registers his public SSH key, which you sometimes don't want for "read-only operations".

Expected behaviour
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One of these two:

- allow read-only operations such as `bzr branch` or `bzr pull` without having a registered public key even after launchpad-login has been issued
- inform the user through a more informative message than the above that *he initiated registration and that he has to either finish it by registering his public ssh key or log out to do an anonymous read-only operation* and enable some easier method of erasing the user's cached identity (`bzr launchpad-logout` from Bug #349143)

I think eliminating not-so-informative errors such as this one would aid in pushing bazaar's user friendliness (for which I appreciate it so much already) even further.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Are you sure this is from 'whoami' and not from 'launchpad-login'? If you do launchpad-login, we expect to be able to use ssh keys. (I believe the launchpad-login process even checks that the user you are logging in as has ssh keys associated with that account.)

If it is just 'bzr whoami' then we probably have a bug that we are registering data somewhere that makes it ok to switch from anonymous http access to authenticated ssh access.

Can you confirm if this is 'launchpad-login' vs 'whoami'?

[Dražen Lučanin (kermit666)]

OK, yes, it's only occurring after I do a `launchpad-login`. Doing a
`whoami` is ok.

Still, I'm behind my original statement - bzr should either throw some more
friendly output with instructions on what to do after a keyless
launchpad-login or just let the anonymous pull/branch/... go through.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM, John A Meinel <email address hidden>wrote:

> Are you sure this is from 'whoami' and not from 'launchpad-login'? If
> you do launchpad-login, we expect to be able to use ssh keys. (I believe
> the launchpad-login process even checks that the user you are logging in
> as has ssh keys associated with that account.)
>
> If it is just 'bzr whoami' then we probably have a bug that we are
> registering data somewhere that makes it ok to switch from anonymous
> http access to authenticated ssh access.
>
> Can you confirm if this is 'launchpad-login' vs 'whoami'?
>
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