Re: g_spawn_async_with_pipes() & ssh based IPC

[Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>]

Thomas Stover on 07/09/2009 03:55 PM wrote:
> In a perfect world a password, another private key, or what ever
> wouldn't ever enter the picture. ssh-agent / pageant.exe work so darn
> well once you get up and running. It's already sad enough that there is
> no way to merge this world with https client authentication, somehow.
> SVN is one example of something that let's you keep things simple
> administratively by optionally using the ssh security model. I hate to
> say it, but the windows named pipes over SMB is another good model (the
> implementation however...).
>
> Passwords all over the place = evil. Each application asking you to
> decrypt a private key / cert on its own = annoying. Again
> gnome-keyring-daemon is on the right track, but I need something for the
> windows side.

I understand your authentication requirement, but I haven't written a
program myself that masters these interfaces (PAM, LDAP, etc) so this
will be my last comment on this. I have extensive knowledge using these
interfaces across multiple applications however.

There was something that crossed my mind when I first read your OP and
this may or may not be what you are looking for...

http://www.libssh2.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

There's packages in Fedora (and probably Debian, etc) for this library,
but I have not used it.

> That's the kind of support I need on a 24 hour a day basis.

I hear you. 99.999% uptime is golden.

> This is with a glib event loop right?

Yep.