[Python-Dev] Devguide: "Can I make commits from machines other than the one I generated the keys on?"

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
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> In
> <
> http://docs.python.org/devguide/faq.html#can-i-make-commits-from-machines-other-than-the-one-i-generated-the-keys-on
> >
> I would rather prefer to promote the "-A" parameter to SSH (to use the
> local SSH agent be used from the remote development machine) instead of
> uploading private keys.
>

Using agent forwarding with ssh gives the machine you log into full access
to _all_ of your local ssh keys rather than just the python svn one
required. I'd rather not recommend that to people. Any serious user of ssh
will know the feature exists and when to prefer its use.

-gps
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