On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Kurt Granroth
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm seeing a very odd problem with a co-worker's system.  Basically,
> when connecting to a repo using ssh, his TortoiseHg (2.0) always uses
> the same user *and* misformats the remote call.  http access works fine
> as well as his setup on a different computer.
>
> We're using 'mercurial-server' on the shared server so all access if via
> the 'hg' user.  A typical clone would look like so:
>
> hg clone ssh://[email protected]/dev/project
>
> This is what happens on the command line:
>
> hg --verbose clone ssh://[email protected]/dev/project
> running ""TortoisePlink.exe" -ssh -2 [email protected] "hg -R
> dev/project serve --stdio""
> remote: mercurial-server: illegal command '[email protected] hg -R
> dev/project serve --stdio'
> abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
>
> Why is it prepending the user and host to the remote command?
>
> So maybe it's something wrong with mercurial-server, I think, and so I
> have home access a different URL on the same system.  This is what we get:
>
> hg --verbose clone ssh://[email protected]/dev/project
> running ""TortoisePlink.exe" -ssh -2 [email protected] "hg -R
> dev/project serve --stdio""
> remote: mercurial-server: illegal command '[email protected] hg -R
> dev/project serve --stdio'
> abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
>
> But wait!! Only the 'hg' user is tied to mercurial-server.  That
> shouldn't (and doesn't) run with any other user on that system.  Also,
> this person doesn't have an SSH key for 'user' on that machine and so
> this should have failed during authentication.
>
> So basically, TortoiseHg (via TortoisePlink) is always authenticating
> using the 'hg' user, even if the URL specifies a different user *AND* is
> sending an incorrectly formatted remote command.

Looks like Putty is eating your lunch

See http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/manual/2.0/faq.html

Specifically the item that starts with "Why can’t I connect to an ssh server"

-- 
Steve Borho

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