Jeff, Thanks for the quick response.
I'm not the most familiar guy with SSH keys, but from what I understand I would still have to type my passphrase the moment I called "git pull" on the remote server, no? On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Jeff Forcier <j...@bitprophet.org> wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Anthony Roscoe <roscoedes...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Been looking around for a solution to this for awhile and figure I would > try the mailing list. Any ideas? Could it be that Fabric isn't recognizing > the passphrase prompt? > > That's it! Unfortunately, right now Fabric isn't able to easily hook > you into the remote end's prompts other than sudo prompts. This isn't > a terrifically easy problem to solve (it's not unique to Fabric) but > we're working on it. For now, the solution is to make everything as > noninteractive as possible, which for Git means using SSH key based > auth with the Git server and having your key on the system(s) that > need Git access*. > > Given some recent inroads I'm hoping Fabric 1.0 will have at least > experimental support for a more interactive mode. Keep an eye on > http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/7 for more info. > > Best, > Jeff > > * I would say "or use an SSH agent" which is a superior approach than > having your key everywhere, but our SSH layer Paramiko doesn't do that > either :( hoping to submit a patch to them sometime if I can figure > out a fix for that too. > > > -- > Jeff Forcier > Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer > http://bitprophet.org >
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