The patch has been added to the JIRA ticket, and is available at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12583315/ivy-jsch-agentproxy-support.diff
(My sent mail archive shows it attached to the original list post as well; I'm a little unclear on how it got dropped). Many thanks, -- Charles Duffy char...@dyfis.net du...@indeed.com On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Charles Duffy <char...@dyfis.net> wrote: > Howdy, all -- > > The SSH library used by ant, jsch, has a series of optional additional > components available adding support for communicating with an external > keystore. I've been using these successfully (with a number of users) over > the course of the last few weeks, and would like to submit the patch I'm > using for this support upstream. > > Is there a reasonable chance of getting this, or something like it, > merged? SSH agent support is critical for single-sign-on authentication to > resources accessed via SSH or SFTP. > > I'm aware that the lack of test cases is unusual, but I'm unclear on how > one would go about testing the functionality in question (given its nature > -- integrating with external services). > > I've created a ticket to track this -- > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1421 -- but don't see an option > to upload a patch there. Feedback would be gratefully appreciated. > > Many thanks, > > -- Charles Duffy > char...@dyfis.net > du...@indeed.com >
