From: Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at domain corvil.com)
Date: Tue 01 Oct 2002 - 09:44:02 IST
David Neary wrote:
> kevin lyda wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 05:37:55PM +0100, Justin MacCarthy wrote:
>>
>>>service cvspserver
>>
>>also, you should really use ssh for cvs, not pserver. pserver sends
>>passwords practically in cleartext and stores the password on the client
>>practically in cleartext.
>
> Would you mind going over how you'd do that? I only know of
> setting CVS_RSH to ssh, which introduces the problem of giving a
> password every time you do a cvs operation, and the inability to
> use the cvs passwd file.
If your local username is different from that on the remote
(cvs) server then the following is very useful in ~/.ssh/config
Host remote_server
user remote_server_username
Now you need to generate the key pair that ssh
uses to authenticate and encrypt traffic between
you and remote_server.
ssh-keygen -t dsa
remote_server needs the public half of the key, so...
scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote_server:.ssh/authorized_keys2
Now you can ssh/scp/sanything to remote_server without
needing a password. To get CVS to use ssh you do:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT="remote_server:/path/to/repository"
Padraig.
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