[Swift-devel] SSH support

[Ben Clifford]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> There have been long discussions about that. The ssh agent seems to use
> some UNIX specific mechanisms to interact with ssh, so it's a bit weird
> from Java. But I never really looked into the issue in sufficient
> detail. I think I should.

right, it uses unix domain sockets. I have no idea what that looks like in 
Java - I think nothing standard at all. I think maybe ssh-agent is also 
version-specific (i.e. it operates only with the ssh client from the same 
release as the ssh-agent) so maybe its a rather folorn hope.

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