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Problems getting authentication.conf to be recognized

Asked by J Bridges

using bzr version, I determine the location for authentication.conf. Then I create it with
[myprojects]
scheme=ftp
host=10.10.1.91
user=dandyone
password=veryfine

I am NOT logged in as dandyone, but when I try to use the Bazaar explorer to connect

sftp://10.10.1.91/srv/bzr/dandyone

It asks for the password of my actual login name. I do NOT want to use that name connecting, but it seems not to recognize the authentication.conf.

Why does the authentication.conf not work?

In fact, better examples for everything in Bazaar is needed. IMO, the documentation needs a whole lot more work.

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Marius Kruger (amanica) said : 		#1

the scheme should be sftp for that url.
But even better: don't specify the scheme and that credentials will be used for all protocols to that url.

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Vincent Ladeuil (vila) said : 		#2

No, the scheme should be ssh as explained here:

  http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.2.2/en/user-reference/authentication-help.html

 SFTP and bzr+ssh should not be used here, ssh should be used instead since this is the real scheme regarding authentication,

In addition to the online help, all the docs for the current stable release and the release under development are here:
  http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com

If you have suggestions on how to improve it, patches are welcome or you can just file bugs.

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