TortoiseSVN, HTTPS, and SSH Tunnel

[BRM]

I've got a setup where we use an SSH Tunnel generated through Putty to access our repository from an external network which is hosted by Apache2/SSL WebDAV SVN configuration.

Currently I have users starting an SSH Tunnel with Putty directly - configuring a headless SSH session that auto-logins in using a Public-Private key, then interacting with the repository via TSVN.

From what I can tell, SVN/TSVN supports tunneling through SSH for the non-Apache2 Subversion Server (ssh+svn protocol). However, at least what I've seen this does not seem to be a directly supported method.

Is there a way to get SVN or (more importantly to me) TSVN to use this kind of configuration internally using Plink?

I don't care if my users still have to specially configure a Putty Session for the Tunneling, though it would be nice if they didn't.

TIA,

Ben

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[Simon Large]

2008/11/6 BRM <bm_wi...@yahoo.com>:

> I've got a setup where we use an SSH Tunnel generated through Putty to access our repository from an external network which is hosted by Apache2/SSL WebDAV SVN configuration.
>
> Currently I have users starting an SSH Tunnel with Putty directly - configuring a headless SSH session that auto-logins in using a Public-Private key, then interacting with the repository via TSVN.
>
> From what I can tell, SVN/TSVN supports tunneling through SSH for the non-Apache2 Subversion Server (ssh+svn protocol). However, at least what I've seen this does not seem to be a directly supported method.
>
> Is there a way to get SVN or (more importantly to me) TSVN to use this kind of configuration internally using Plink?
>
> I don't care if my users still have to specially configure a Putty Session for the Tunneling, though it would be nice if they didn't.

http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-network

Set up the command line in TSVN->Settings->Network

Use TortoisePlink in place of Plink once it is working to avoid
command windows popping up all the time.

Simon

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[BRM]

Cool.
Thanks.

Ben

[BRM]

Ok, I checked into this and setup TortoisePlink:

TortoisePlink -load puttyProfile

However, I am not able to get it to work.
If I try "ssh+https://..." it says it doesn't recognize the protocol set.
If I try "https+ssh//..." it can't find the server.

I tried running TortoisePlink from the command-line, but didn't see anything - nothing seemed to generate any error so far as I could tell.

Any tips?

TIA,

Ben

----- Original Message ----
From: Simon Large <simon.to...@googlemail.com>
To: d...@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2008 5:19:12 PM
Subject: Re: TortoiseSVN, HTTPS, and SSH Tunnel

[Simon Large]

2008/11/19 BRM <bm_wi...@yahoo.com>:

> Ok, I checked into this and setup TortoisePlink:
>
> TortoisePlink -load puttyProfile
>
> However, I am not able to get it to work.
> If I try "ssh+https://..." it says it doesn't recognize the protocol set.
> If I try "https+ssh//..." it can't find the server.
>
> I tried running TortoisePlink from the command-line, but didn't see anything - nothing seemed to generate any error so far as I could tell.
>
> Any tips?
>

Get it working with command line plink first. You will need the latest
version from the PuTTY website to be compatible. TortoisePlink is
simply Plink compiled to run without a console window, so you don't
get to see any error mesages.

[BRM]

I have plink working from the command-line.
However, I am still unable to get TortoisePlink to work.

I tried the '-v' option for TortoisePlink (for verbose) but did not see anything.
Is there a way to get to any log data for TortoisePlink?

I tried enabling the 'logging' in Putty (Session->Logging category). But even plink doesn't generate the log file. (Putty did, so I know it works.)
TortoisePlink did not either.

TIA,

Ben

----- Original Message ----
From: Simon Large <simon.to...@googlemail.com>
To: d...@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:36:54 AM
Subject: Re: TortoiseSVN, HTTPS, and SSH Tunnel

[Stefan Küng]

BRM wrote:
> I have plink working from the command-line.
> However, I am still unable to get TortoisePlink to work.

Is this version 0.60 of Plink?

> I tried the '-v' option for TortoisePlink (for verbose) but did not see anything.
> Is there a way to get to any log data for TortoisePlink?

Nope, sorry. TortoisePlink is Plink, but without the console window so
you won't get any output there.

Stefan

[BRM]

Yes it is version 0.60.

And I had tried "plink" with the verbose options. But did not see anything useful there.

Might I suggest modifying the command-line option output then for TortoisePlink and removing (or at least marking and noting) the options that affectively do nothing?
(Just a thought...)

Ben

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From: Stefan Küng <torto...@gmail.com>
To: d...@tortoisesvn.tigris.org

Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:00:24 PM
Subject: Re: TortoiseSVN, HTTPS, and SSH Tunnel

Stefan

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