Comments on: MozillaBuild Fun

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:29:00 +0000

Neil: yes, that’s a known issue.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:51:51 +0000

Robert, I see now that there’s some stupid setting on your blog software that’s uppercasing the letters s and h if you should need to use two of the former and one of the latter.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:50:18 +0000

eval `ssh-agent`
also works.

I note that only Myk correctly spelled ssh-agent in lower case; Robert and Vladimir only got away with it due to XP’s case insensitivity; Vladimir will need to change his .profile if he wants it to work on Linux/Mac.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:40:07 +0000

Thanks guys.

By: Myk Melez

Myk Melez — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:39:00 +0000

Over in bug 390498, I added ssh-agent to all three batch scripts, so in the next version of MozillaBuild you won't need to hack the scripts yourself.

By: Vladimir Vukicevic

Vladimir Vukicevic — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:48:35 +0000

You can also do what I used to do — in your .profile, add in ” . ~/.ssh/agent”, and then make a script that does:

ssh-agent > ~/.ssh/agent
. ~/.ssh/agent
ssh-add

That way you only need to type your password once, the first time you open a shell (more could be done here to automatically do the ssh-agent startup if the agent isn’t actually alive, but I never bothered); all subsequent shells just talk to the same agent.

Or, even better — install putty, convert your private key to a pageant compatible one, then drop a symlink to that in your startup items folder. Add the putty dir to your $PATH, and set CVS_RSH=plink. Pageant will prompt you for your private key at system startup, and cvs will use plink to talk to the remote server, and you’ll only need to enter your passphrase once at startup, into a win32 dialog.