Windows clients and PuTTY

[David Cheney]

:) Nice.

The big problem with using the go ssh client is not the ssh support,
but the terminal handling. To work properly on the remote side you
need to request a PTY when setting up the shell session. That causes
the remote shell to send lots of advanced messages, like 'how wide is
your screen', etc, which need to be handled or you just get poop on
your screen. Interfacing that with the W32 console subsystem sounds
like a major headache.

I think for the windows cli the best experience would be to fire off
putty.exe, so the user has all their normal putty customization
necessary and doesn't have to use ssh though the crippled win32
console.

Cheers

Dave


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has written an ssh client for go...
>
> On Dec 3, 2013 6:10 PM, "David Cheney" <david.cheney at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> I *think* the putty cli command is something like pssh, we can look it
>> up. I think this is pretty easy to attempt as we can detect when the
>> user is running windows and use an alternative command invocation.
>>
>> Who wants to raise the issue ?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Marco Ceppi <marco at ondina.co> wrote:
>> > We have docs on creating keys for windows users, but not on how to set
>> > up
>> > PuTTY https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/getting-started-keygen-win.html We
>> > should
>> > probably expand these to installing PuTTY
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi folks,
>> >>
>> >> I watch the Ask Ubuntu questions around Juju, and saw one yesterday
>> >> that
>> >> I think we need to get better docs around.
>> >>
>> >> The user was saying he couldn't edit the files on the machines that
>> >> Juju
>> >> started.  This had me going "huh?".
>> >>
>> >> I should have twigged immediately at the use of Filezilla, but it
>> >> became
>> >> obvious when someone else suggested just using 'juju ssh' and the error
>> >> was that 'juju not found in %PATH%'.
>> >>
>> >> Do we have docs that help people set up PuTTY on windows, enabling it
>> >> for juju, and making sure that the key is uploaded?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Tim
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Juju mailing list
>> >> Juju at lists.ubuntu.com
>> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Juju mailing list
>> > Juju at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Juju mailing list
>> Juju at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju