turn off using blowfish for scp transfers - not available on a stock ubuntu-15.04...

[nepi.git] / src / nepi / util / sshfuncs.py

diff --git a/src/nepi/util/sshfuncs.py b/src/nepi/util/sshfuncs.py
index 83e2d7e..a01bded 100644 (file)
--- a/src/nepi/util/sshfuncs.py
+++ b/src/nepi/util/sshfuncs.py
@@ -344,9 +344,13 @@ def rcopy(source, dest,
     tmp_known_hosts = None
 
     args = ['scp', '-q', '-p', '-C',
+            # 2015-06-01 Thierry: I am commenting off blowfish
+            # as this is not available on a plain ubuntu 15.04 install
+            # this IMHO is too fragile, shoud be something the user
+            # decides explicitly (so he is at least aware of that dependency)
             # Speed up transfer using blowfish cypher specification which is 
             # faster than the default one (3des)
-            '-c', 'blowfish',
+            # '-c', 'blowfish',
             # Don't bother with localhost. Makes test easier
             '-o', 'NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes',
             '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=60',