Comment 16 for bug 414743

2009/9/3 Alexander Belchenko <email address hidden>:
> John A Meinel пишет:
>> Note that Alexander's change doesn't actually make Paramiko the default,
>> for people like me who have cygwin installed and thus have a valid 'ssh'
>> implementation on the path. For this, you have to still specify
>> "BZR_SSH=paramiko" as an environment variable.
>
> I want only exclude plink from the game. I have no real experience (neither good or bad) with
> cygwin+ssh.
>
>> Not to mention that if we switch more to GUI level apps, then we can
>> have QBzr give a password prompt, rather than having it show up on a
>> terminal.
>
> Yes, we have similar confusion even from Linux people, see bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422656
>
> Actually I'd like to go even further and suggest using paramiko as default client even on Linux, at
> least with GUI tools.

I think that gets more into the case that I was trying to explain
above: people on unix have openssh-specific configuration. For
instance I have an 89-line long .ssh/config, and without the proxy
configuration and other stuff in it I can't connect to several
machines. The impact of switching to paramiko would then be: are the
features I need still available there, and if not, is it reasonably
discoverable that I should switch back to external ssh. But I think
that's potentially resolvable.

I will also mention that there is a way to get ssh to use an external
program to ask for passwords or passphrases, and we could try to hook
into that. Whether it will give us such nice integration, and whether
it's worth writing that code for both paramiko and openssh is
questionable.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>