Re: [RFC 0/2] Git-over-TLS (gits://) client side support
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:46:56PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Ilari Liusvaara
> <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
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> > The client tries only one auth method instead of potentially trying
> > multiple. Witness the 'use verbose mode and check if it uses the key'
> > type stuff.
>
> I believe this is a limitation of the client, not of the protocol. So
> a patch to the ssh client could fix this.
This is also about interfaces to user. It effectively can't be patched.
<forking OpenSSH>
Get real.
> > And if you host the repo system too, you would get second key anyway
> > (and SSH is not too good at handling multiple keys).
>
> I'm not really sure about this. ssh-add seems pretty easy.
Anyway, two SSH keys in interactive use means which to use has to be selected,
one doesn't.
-Ilari