RE: [nant-dev] SCP Task

[Scott Hernandez]

The ant ftp [1] task has a password attribute. There is no easy solution. The best option is to use the inherent security system, or existing credentials. In another email I mentioned ssh-agent. On NT/Windows NTLM would work fine.   [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html   I’m happy with my strategy, for the simple case, I may just add a password attribute. But would strongly discourage its use!   -----Original Message----- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:28 PM To: Scott Hernandez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nant-dev] SCP Task   Scott Hernandez wrote: I’ve written a simple SCPTask, that wraps scp.exe. For it to work, you need to have a setup that doesn’t require any password/pass-phrase to be typed. I’m thinking about adding this task to the newly (soon to be) formed NAntContrib project.   I’m thinking about ways of encrypting your password to a file so we can use that when prompted, but right it doesn’t work yet. This will hide your password outside the buildfile, but doesn’t really protect the contents much. I would assume this file would not be something that is actually checked into source control.   Sounds like a good way to go. Does ant have an ftp task ? If so I wonder how they've solved the same problem I’m assuming that build files should be completely independent of user input. At no time should a task require the user to type anything, right?   Thats a valid assumption I think. Otherwise the goal of unattended builds kinda goes out the window. Still theres nothing stopping someone putting a MessageBox.Show() in a script block. Later, Scott