[jira] Commented: (INFRA-2755) .ppk files not suitable for maven authentication during deploy

["Gavin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gavin commented on INFRA-2755:
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Hi Kelvin,

that page is really just information for Windows folks wanting to connect to people.apache.org and I dont think is a suitable place to talk about Maven.

Secondly, your assumption that Maven doesnt recognise .ppk files is incorrect. All you need do is add a reference to it in your POM.
See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/examples/deploy-ssh-external.html

HTH

Gav...


> .ppk files not suitable for maven authentication during deploy
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: INFRA-2755
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2755
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: Website
>            Reporter: Kelvin Goodson
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The instructions at [1] for creating keys for authentication using putty for use with signing into people.apache.org describe saving the private key as a .ppk file.  If a user then makes the assumption that this file is suitable for referencing in a maven settings.xml file they will get failures during maven deploy commands because the putty file format is not recognised by maven. The instructions should perhaps contain, after point 7, 
> 8. from the conversions menu in puttygen, save the private key in open ssh format for use with maven.This file format is required by maven's privateKey element to allow automatic authentication when using commands such as "mvn deploy"
> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/user-ssh-windows.html

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