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Re: [jgit-dev] SSH Gerrit key with JGit

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 09:25, Itzack <itzack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, answering my own plight I figured out a way to ensure that JGIT is
> always using the current key present in the home/.ssh folder. I created a
> class that inherits from JschConfigSessionFactory and overrode the getJSch
> method such that I intercepted the result from the super.getJSch to remove
> all identities present and retrieve the private key present in home/.ssh
> folder with the addIdentity method. Then it was only a matter of setting the
> instance of the SshSessionFactory with its setInstance method to my custom
> class and it worked like a charm.
>
> Not sure if this is the most elegant or even correct way to do this, but it
> works ok.

This is a valid way to use the code, and is one reason why we allow
applications to replace the SshSessionFactory. But I really think this
is a bug in JGit, we should be able to pick up the new keys,
especially after an authentication failure if we haven't looked at
~/.ssh recently.


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