[mosh-devel] cygwin now added

[Daniel Richards]

This is in Cygwin on windows 7. I'll double check when this I get home.
I did see the prompt for the private key, but it was "in the
background" and I couldn't actually tell it my passphrase. (Since
anything I typed would just go to the bash prompt)


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Cygwin or Linux or what platform?
>
> On Linux and OS X, using ssh with public keys to make a Mosh connection
> works fine. SSH just prompts you for the passphrase on the command line.
>
> This should also (hopefully) work on Cygwin, just as if you are connecting
> without public-key authentication and have to type a password.
>
> -Keith
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Daniel Richards wrote:
>
>> Hmm, is there a way to use mosh with ssh+public keys?
>> I can specify the key on the ssh command line, but it looks like it
>> forks into the background and there's nowhere for me to type in the
>> passphrase for my private key?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> * Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> [2012-07-18 18:32:16 -0400]:
>>>>
>>>> Could somebody else please test this package and give us your report? If
>>>> all is well, we will put this on the main page.
>>>
>>>
>>> As previously mentioned in IRC, I can test it at work today and
>>> tomorrow, as I have Cygwin installed anyways!
>>>
>>> Do any specific things come to your minds I could test? Apart of "it
>>> runs and I can connect to my server"?
>>>
>>> Flo
>>>
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