Max Battcher <[email protected]> writes:

> So any good Darcs on Windows guide will have to explain SSH keys and
> agents (pageant), because PuTTY's agent doesn't do some of the
> auto-launch, auto-cookie "magic" that OpenSSH does (particularly with
> the (awesome) super-agents that modern distros provide).

Do you have a reference for this "super-agent magic"?

I have to manually ssh-add any keys I want to use BEFORE I run ssh.  If
I simply say "ssh fs", it will prompt me for my passphrase, but it WILL
NOT add it to ssh-agent.

(ssh-agent is auto-started if you use X, but because my screen session
persists across multiple X sessions, I have to manually start ssh-agent,
too.)

I'm running OpenSSH 5.5p1 on Debian Sid.

> If it were crucial that darcs provide good password login support on
> Windows, it does sound like darcs could do basically what TortoiseSVN
> seems to be doing: provide its own password prompt and then make sure
> it provides that in the command line to any plink/pscp/psftp calls it
> makes.

If Windows users can inspect one another's command lines (as Unix users
usually can, e.g. ps(1)), that would constitute password disclosure on
multi-seat flavours of Windows like Terminal Server.

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