MySQL Bugs: #48873: Add 'browse' button for ssh key file (server connections)

Bug #48873	Add 'browse' button for ssh key file (server connections)
Submitted:	18 Nov 2009 17:30	Modified:	20 Aug 2010 10:16
Reporter:	Craig Fowler	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.2.8	OS:	Linux (Debian Squeeze x86/Ubuntu 9.04 .deb package)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Connection, ssh, UI

Description:
Could I request a "Browse for a file" button in the UI for choosing an SSH keyfile (when creating/editing a server connection that uses SSH) - it's really just a convenience.

Also, slightly related and less important it would be nice if I could enter 'platform-specific' shortcuts into the path-to-keyfile textarea.  For example on Linux I am used to referring to my keyfile as: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.  The current text box doesn't recognise the "~/" shortcut/alias though, I have to use /home/username/

How to repeat:
N/A - feature request

funny enough there *is* a browse button in the ssh part of "New Server Profile" ... so pretty inconsistent user interface ...

the key file name defaults to "~/.ssh/id_rsa" there but this doesn't work as it is not able to resolve the posix ~ placeholder for $HOME there either ... will open a new bug for that one ...

I confirm this on 5.2.10 on Windows.

Confirm:  This has already been fixed in a previous release.  Can't reproduce on current stable version.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed in the latest released version of that product, which you can download at

  http://www.mysql.com/downloads/