On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:20:11PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote: > I set the GIT_SSH environment variable to lsh or lshg.
I wonder how I have managed to miss that :( > Which version of lsh are you using, I guess 2.1? Yes. I use released version to avoid having automake(perl5) installed on my custom distro (or other super kludges). > Can you give some more details? The actual expansion ought to be done at > the server end, I guess? I have not digged that deep, then I have no idea if it's client side or server side. > What's the problem with -i? That you can pass only one? There are two > problems here, first is that the option parsing wants only a single > identity. Second is that lsh reads the private key file only, and if > it's encrypted, it has no idea what the public key is until you have > typed in the right passphrase. Which means that it can't negotiate which > key to use with the server until after the passphrase. Ideally, one > should use a key format that includes both the public key, unencrypted, > and the necrypted private key. Or read the .pub file too and hope the > two files match. The thing is to have something like ssh-agent. But it's fine using the *FLAGS environment variable to switch of key pair. > I think the easiest way to get going with current lsh is to first > connect and authenticate to the server using > > lsh -B -G -i key-file -l user host > > and then export GIT_SSH=lshg. Does it maintain a permanent connexion to the server? If so, server admnins won't like it :) > I don't plan to add features to the 2.x branch, and I'd really like to > get lsh-3 out (but that's a pretty slow process, i'm afraid). But it > would make some sense to backport simple things, like supporting > user@host (in the development version, this is in > https://git.lysator.liu.se/lsh/lsh/blob/master/src/lsh.c, function > main_argp_parser, and to backport that, the right place is > https://git.lysator.liu.se/lsh/lsh/blob/lsh-2.0.4/src/client.c, function > client_argp_parser). I'll manage till your next release. thx!!! -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ lsh-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/lsh-bugs
