Windows clients and PuTTY

[Nate Finch]

Yeah, that's a good point. The problem comes when they don't have putty, or
if they do, we don't know where it is (putty isn't an installed
application, it's a standalone exe, so it can live anywhere... Mine always
just lived in my downloads folder). I'm not sure what the best solution for
that is. There's a bunch of not great work around.
On Dec 3, 2013 6:44 PM, "David Cheney" <david.cheney at canonical.com> wrote:

> :) 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
> >> >>
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