From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that SSH runs in non-interactive mode Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:33:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1216487215-6927-1-git-send-email-fredrik@dolda2000.com> <1216490252.10694.58.camel@koto.keithp.com> <1216491512.3911.9.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> <1216576183.3673.2.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Keith Packard , git@vger.kernel.org, "Edward Z. Yang" , Steffen Prohaska To: Fredrik Tolf X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 20 20:33:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKdj4-0002MN-5Q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:33:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750939AbYGTScn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:32:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750765AbYGTScn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:32:43 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:60598 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750702AbYGTScm (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:32:42 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2008 18:32:40 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 20 Jul 2008 20:32:40 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18r90hSR+krVxC4Q1/7Z0jIh7zVmI0zVcxKtUSjqA PIijwt0f1+fWjW X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <1216576183.3673.2.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 12:27 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Well, this was to be expected, after what I wrote in response to 3. in > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/76650/focus=2598 > > > > Reality always catches up with you, and here again we see that plink > > and other siblings of OpenSSH should be best handled with scripts, > > preferably ones that strip out options they do not recognize. > > Otherwise, an alternative may be to always install a script, say > `git-ssh', that would invoke the real SSH in a manner specific for the > platform. The exact script installed could even be parametrized by the > Makefile. For systems using OpenSSH, it would probably just consist of > `ssh -xT "$@"'. > > What do you think? Umm, why? I fully expect OpenSSH to be the most common ssh helper. I fail to see why we should optimize for something else. The GIT_SSH solution works. Why not just leave things like they are? Ciao, Dscho