Public key passphrases when using ext connection method
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Key: SCM-477
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-477
Project: Maven SCM
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: maven-scm-provider-cvs
Affects Versions: 1.3
Environment: Windows
Reporter: Matt Brown
When using the ext connection method, and a public key is found by the cvsjava
implementation, it checks a System property named
"maven.scm.cvs.java.ssh.passphrase". If this property is not defined, then the
empty string is used as the passphrase.
The exception given when attempting to use the public key with an empty
passphrase (when in reality the passphrase is not empty) is misleading and does
not really tell the user that the cvsjava library could not determine what
passphrase to use. In addition, the site documentation does not make any
mention of the need to set the property "maven.scm.cvs.java.ssh.passphrase".
In my opinion, a mention in the site provider documentation about this property
(along with several others used by ExtConnection, such as the location of the
public key file, which are all undocumented) would go a long way towards
helping make this plugin/provider easier to use. In addition, the exception
printed in this scenario could be clearer as well.
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