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seems that webapp ssh password ssh-agent hack is broken on windows after recent ssh changes

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Joey Hess 2015-05-08 15:05:48 -04:00
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available on more architectures in Devian unstable.
* Windows: Remove cygwin ssh, the newer version of which has stopped
honoring the setting of HOME. Instead, copy msysgit's ssh into PATH.
Note that setting up a remote ssh server using password authentication
is known to be broken in this release on Windows.
* Windows: Roll back to an older version of rsync from cygwin.
The newer version has some dependency on a newer ssh from cygwin.

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Recent changes to ssh on Windows have broken the webapps's support for
entering a password when adding a ssh remote.
Using ssh on windows with an existing remote does work. So as a workaround,
set up a passwordless ssh key that can log into the ssh server. --[[Joey]]