Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:53:51PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> > The couple of SSH client's, I have found for NT and 95 are
> > TeraTermPro and Putty. None of the packages have the binaries
> > ssh-agent, ssh-keygen and ssh-add.
>
> I actually don't know of any Windows clients w/ ssh-agent or ssh-add.
> Key generation is available on at least the F-secure client.
> (optionally, you can generate a key on UNIX and ftp it to the windows
> client... klugy, but it works.)
Just a few comments:
There is no standard way for a client to discover an agent on Windows.
Thus, if I were to implement agent support in TTSSH, I'd have to make up
my own protocol and implement both the agent and the client support.
Furthermore, *no-one* has requested agent support on Windows (and I get a
lot of feature requests!). That is why TTSSH does not support agents.
What I'd really like to see is a standard facility that goes beyond
ssh-agent and allows storage of arbitrary session secrets and proxying of
arbitrary operations on them. Now that Netscape's PSM is going open
source, maybe that can be used (or modified if necessary).
TTSSH could cache the login RSA key and use it to provide agent services
to the remote session, but no-one's asked for that either.
There is no reason for key generation to be part of TTSSH. It would be
nice if someone wrote a little GUI port of ssh-keygen for Windows. If they
did, I'd distribute it with TTSSH. However, it's not a priority for me.
Rob
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[Robert O'Callahan http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~roc 6th year CMU CS PhD student
"I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything
beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet
they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."
--- Ecclesiastes 3:10-11]
