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Bug 264

Summary: [CVS EXTSSH] cannot use RSA key for SSH connection (1GKKBJP)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jean-Michel Lemieux <jean-michel_lemieux>
Component: TeamAssignee: Boris Shingarov <bshingar>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 CC: w3aponx
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2001-10-10 21:39:09 EDT 
From Eclipse Corner:

Hi,

   I just installed Eclipse 0.9 build 0.125 and was trying to use it with
CVS. Well, it turns out that I use CVS on SSH using an RSA private key.
TortoiseCVS will automatically use this key, at c:\ssh\.ssh\identity.
WinCVS will allow me to use this key too (give path to it). Even Tera Term
Pro with the SSH extension will aloow me to use it either with
login/password or with login+RSA key file.

   But I didn't find in Eclipse how to do this. It keeps asking me for the
password - it should not, because my private key is not
passphrase-protected anyway. It should do like WinCVS, which allows me to
point to the RSA key to use.

   So, if you know how to make Eclipse work on SSH with an RSA private key
instead of the traditional user&password, let me know. Thanks.

marcio


NOTES:

Jean-Michel (9/24/01 10:52:59 AM)
	This should be configurable on a per connection basis.
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-23 23:49:38 EDT 
PRODUCT VERSION:

R1.0
Comment 2 James Moody CLA 2001-10-31 14:03:33 EST 
The Java SSH implementation does not seem to be able to use RSA keys for 
authentication, as far as I can tell. However, this is possible using the new 
EXT plugin. This PR can probably be marked as fixed.
Comment 3 James Moody CLA 2001-11-20 15:31:16 EST 
Hmm, according to http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/software/java-ssh/ the applet 
does indeed support RSA authentication, we could investigate how easy it would 
be to reveal this functionality to the user. (i.e. if it's as easy as asking 
the user for the location of the key and then passing it to the connection 
method, it might be worth it).
Comment 4 Kevin McGuire CLA 2002-02-07 16:18:41 EST 
marked as enhancement.
Comment 5 Michael Valenta CLA 2002-09-06 21:21:33 EDT 
Reopening
Comment 6 Michael Valenta CLA 2002-11-14 16:44:33 EST 
I believe this will be address in the work Boris is doing with ssh.
Comment 7 Boris Shingarov CLA 2002-11-15 14:30:25 EST 
This is not supported by our SSH1 code.
This will be part of the coming support for SSH2.
Comment 8 Michael Valenta CLA 2003-05-06 09:18:58 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25238 ***