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Re: Secure remote CVS
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Mike Castle |
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Re: Secure remote CVS |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:52:55 -0800 |
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:05:51PM -0600, David H. Thornley wrote:
> I recommended setting CVS_RSH=ssh, and was told that the users
> then had to type in their password for every file being transferred,
> and that is more typing than they're willing to put up with.
What implementation of ssh are they using?
I was using a port of 1.2.14 to win32 and did the following:
Set up HOME environment variables for everyone, and create %HOME%/.ssh
directories for all involved. (also handy place to put .cvsrc and
.cvsignore files too).
On all of the clients, run ssh-keygen and supply NO passphrase (It turns
out the particular port that I used was broken in this aspect. So I had
to run ssh-keygen on the unix box and ftp files back. It was a pain,
but worked. Apparently there is a work around for this particular port,
but I forget what it is).
Then we did the appropriate things with public/private key files onto the
server (been a while since set it up so don't remember details).
Now, problem with this is that any access to this machine/account now
allows access to the cvs server without another need for a password. Is
that sufficient or not?
If using a Cygwin port, can you do things with ssh-agent to have it up and
running? I've never used ssh-agent so don't know if it would serve this
purpose or not.
mrc
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