From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:49:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that SSH runs in non-interactive mode
Message-ID: <1216576183.3673.2.camel@pc7.dolda2000.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807201214060.3305@eeepc-johanness>

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?

Fredrik Tolf