Error with TortoiseHg push to a remote computer

[Yuya Nishihara]

On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:55:09 -0700, casem wrote:
> I am using TortoiseHg 3.0.0 on Windows 8; I also have Python 3.4.0 
> installed. I push my repository to several remote locations using the 
> ssh protocol. For one remote computer, I get an error. However, if I run 
> the command with --verbose and then copy the exact ssh command that 
> TortoiseHg uses into Cygwin (Cygwin details below), I can use that 
> command successfully independently of TortoiseHg.
> 
> **FAILS on remote computer (must authenticate with password)**
> TortoiseHg > Sync > hg push 
> ssh://user@remote.computer.edu//$HOME/repository
> 
> Gives the following outputs (among others):
> running ssh user at remote.computer.edu "hg -R /$HOME/repository serve 
> --stdio"
> ...
> remote: debug1: Authentications that can continue: 
> publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
> remote: debug1: Next authentication method: password
> remote: debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or 
> address

It seems you are using Cygwin's SSH client, but it has no GUI like
ssh-askpass.  Try TortoisePlink that should be able to show password dialog
or interact with Pageant.

Regards,