UNISON-SSH
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by Lucian Wischik, 2005-2006
http://www.wischik.com/lu/programmer/unison-ssh.html


The "Unison" file-synchronisation utility assumes that you have a program
called "ssh" on your system that behaves in a particular way. Users of cygwin
and linux already have this. But other windows users only have an alternative
called "plink" which isn't quite right.

This program, UNISON-SSH, is a wrapper around plink to make unison "just work"
without further configuration.


INSTALLATION

Put "ssh.exe" into your windows directory, c:\windows
NB: if you already have an ssh.exe on your system, then it probably
works fine already, and you don't need UNISON-SSH at all.


USAGE

You don't use UNISON-SSH directly. Instead, it's invoked by Unison.


NOTES

This program UNISON-SSH is merely a wrapper around PLINK.EXE. If you
already have PLINK.EXE installed somewhere on your path, then that
will be used. If you don't have it installed, then UNISON-SSH contains
a copy and will automatically install that copy in c:\windows

Since it uses PLINK.EXE, you can use the familiar associated tools
like PAGENT if you want. But a neat feature of UNISON-SSH is that
it renders PAGENT unnecessary -- PAGENT was used specifically to
enable the password prompt because Unison choked on that, but
UNISON-SSH unchokes it.

Also, since it uses PLINK.EXE, it will pop up the a prompt
"This is a new server do you want to install its key" prompt
the first time you connect to a new server. Unison won't
like this. What you should do, just the first time you connect
to a server, is connect to it directly (using putty or plink
or pscp) rather than via Unision or UNISON-SSH.
