On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 9:54:37 PM UTC+2, Michael Cole wrote: > > Hi Stefan, > > - Where are the keys stored? I think it goes through TortoisePlink.exe - > can I set the key when making the tunnel so I don't have to mess with > PuTTY's settings? > >> >> Plink stores the keys, that's another application. TortoisePlink is just >> the original Plink compiled and slightly modified so that ugly console >> window doesn't pop up every time. >> > > When TortoisePlink starts the connection, it sends a public key from a > well-known place to start securing the connection. I want it to send a key > saved from the SSH config section. So it could either write to the > well-known location - or use the configured one first. > > From TortoisePlink's help dialog, something like: > > tortoiseplink [host] -i [keyfile location] > > you can configure the ssh client that svn uses like that if you like. e.g. in the TSVN settings dialog, network, ssh client: just put something like this in there: tortoiseplink -i path\to\keyfile
> > >> >>> - Can TortoiseSVN (or it's programs) create keys or does it need an >>> external program? ( (I see \ext\openssl in the repo checkout) >>> >> >> No, TSVN can't create keys. Sorry. >> >> > > Windows 7 and later already has ssh-keygen installed at: > C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh-keygen.exe so we could shell that command > to generate the keys like just like plink to make the connection. > > It looks like most of the heavy lifting has been done. Would you be > interested in a patch for this? > > No, but generating keys is not the job of an svn client. I don't like the idea of implementing things that are not part of the main job of TSVN. Stefan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn-dev/8eee384e-bd96-4d2c-9d6d-0d26e78e5ad3%40googlegroups.com.
