Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

Thus said Warren Young on Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:26:29 -0700: > I'd say take it up with the plink developers, then. It *should* do > interactive prompting in this case. It's possible that there is something in the way Fossil forks the plink process on Windows that is causing plink not to

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

Thus said Daniel Dumitriu on Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:18:41 +0100: > By the way: Does the whole reasoning not hold for https URLs? They > allow a password on the command line, too. HTTP(S) urls behave differently than SSH because they are different protocols/systems. The password in HTTP(S)

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

On 11.12.2015 06:19, Andy Bradford said: >> when called as a process [1]. I don't know if this can be solved >> inside fossil; a workaround is to use a modified plink, e.g. that from >> TortoiseSVN. > > You can configure Fossil to use the modified plink. Use: > > fossil clone --ssh-command

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

On Dec 11, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Daniel Dumitriu wrote: > >> Why can’t you just use SSH keys? The wish for automated login without >> leaking passwords is exactly the problem they solve. > I can and I do. But maybe other users cannot Why “cannot”? I get “will not,” but

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

> Why can’t you just use SSH keys? The wish for automated login without > leaking passwords is exactly the problem they solve. I can and I do. But maybe other users cannot, and they get tempted by that :password bit. Or they like to carry on a stick plink next to their fossil executable, so they

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

On Dec 11, 2015, at 2:59 AM, Daniel Dumitriu wrote: > > the documentation (e.g. fossil clone) mentions this > possibility for ssh URL's ([userid[:password]@]host), so in my opinion > either fossil passes the password further to plink Interesting. It has a -pw flag

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 03:59:29PM +0100, Daniel Dumitriu wrote: > Still there seems to be another problem with fossil: it does not pass > the password to plink when it was given on the command line as in > user:pass@host:port. Maybe something along these lines ("-p pass")? I would call that a

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

I would use Pageant if you don't want to have to respond to an interactive password prompt. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Daniel Dumitriu wrote: > Hi, > > Coming back to my own unanswered question: it seems like it has to do > with standard (PuTTY) plink's

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

Thus said Daniel Dumitriu on Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:59:29 +0100: > when called as a process [1]. I don't know if this can be solved > inside fossil; a workaround is to use a modified plink, e.g. that from > TortoiseSVN. You can configure Fossil to use the modified plink. Use: fossil clone

Re: [fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

Hi, Coming back to my own unanswered question: it seems like it has to do with standard (PuTTY) plink's inability to hook itself to console input when called as a process [1]. I don't know if this can be solved inside fossil; a workaround is to use a modified plink, e.g. that from TortoiseSVN.

[fossil-users] Password prompt with SSH protocol on Windows?

Hi, I'm having problems using Fossil with the SSH protocol on Windows 8.1. Somehow the password is not being prompted for. Interestingly enough, when I run the relevant plink command by itself, the password prompt comes up and connection succeeds. Using keys (Pageant) works though - at least if