On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 03:43:01AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There are a few places in git that need to get a username > > and password credential from the user; the most notable one > > is HTTP authentication for smart-http pushing. > > A question: does it work also for access via SSH, either without > public key set up (i.e. 'keyboard-interactive'), or with encrypted > private key without ssh-agent set up? No. ssh handles its own password querying, and contacts the user directly via the terminal. And there's not much point in using a password helper with ssh; if you don't want to type your password, set up a key and use ssh-agent. > It would probably require URL i.e. ssh://git.example.com/srv/scm/repo.git > or git+ssh://git.example.com/srv/scm/repo.git and not scp-like > address i.e. user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/srv/scm/repo.git, isn't it? It's not a matter of recognizing the URL; it's that we hand off the authentication problem to ssh, which takes care of it entirely itself. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html