Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-Backup Windows Integer Overflow Problem

[Dave Kempe]

----- "Josh Nisly" <address@hidden> wrote:

> There's nothing inherent in rdiff-backup that prevents password-based
> 
> authentication, but putty (and plink) are broken (in technical terms,
> 
> they print the password prompt to stdout instead of stderr). What I 
> ended up doing was building my own ssh implementation using paramiko.
> 

I dunno if it support the features we need for rdiff-backup to work, but I 
recently found tunnelier:
http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier
which has a component/executable that might just provide the functionality that 
rdiff-backup needs.

If you get that working please document it on the wiki


Dave