Re: [Savannah-hackers] Access Through Firewall

[Sylvain Beucler]

We decided not to use pserver anymore because it lacks security. Hence,  
there is no chance we will support it again.

Also, I tested your command under MSys, and plink.exe seems to ignore  
all the arguments I pass to it. Maybe Cygwin's latest shell+console  
fixes this, but I cannot install it on that PC right now.

However,
cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc co -r lno-branch gcc
should be the the correct command (yours fails with my version of CVS  
under GNU/Linux). Could you check whether that one works for you?

If it still fails, could you try with OpenSSH instead of plink?

Again, I find it strange that the firewall let the connection be  
established, and causes our CVS server to generate an error message, so  
I think it is not related to your firewall.


--
Sylvain


On 2004.06.30 23:39, address@hidden wrote:
> Sylvain
>
> Yes, I do.
>
> Pserver works quite well through the firewall though.  Any chance
> supporting it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sylvain Beucler [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 16:09
> > To: Menezes, Evandro
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] Access Through Firewall
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > As far as I see, this is not a firewall problem.
> > However, I am quite unable to reproduce your problem.
> > Do you still experience it?
> >
> > --
> > Sylvain
> >
> >
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > > This is perhaps a quite common issue, but I'd appreciate if
> > you could
> > > pint me to some sort of FAQ on this subject.
> > >
> > > Because of our strict firewall, only HTTP tunneling is possible.
> > > pserver works fine, but SSH requires an application such as
> > putty to
> > > go through it.
> > >
> > > Here are my setup and the messages I get:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > $ cat ~/bin/$CVS_RSH
> > > #!/bin/shplink -load ${PLINK_SESSION:-GCC} -batch -v $@
> > >
> > > $ echo $CVS_RSH
> > > plink.sh
> > >
> > > $ cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc co gcc -r
> > > lno-branch Looking up host "savannah.gnu.org"
> > > Connecting to savannah.gnu.org port 22
> > > Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3.1
> > > We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Local: Jun 21 2004 09:14:43
> > > Using SSH protocol version 2
> > > Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
> > > Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
> > > Host key fingerprint is:
> > > ssh-rsa 1024 80:5a:b0:0c:ec:93:66:29:49:7e:04:2b:fd:ba:2c:d5
> > > Initialised AES-256 client->server encryption
> > > Initialised AES-256 server->client encryption
> > > Using username "anoncvs".
> > > Access granted
> > > Opened channel for session
> > > Started a shell/command
> > > Server sent command exit status 0
> > > All channels closed. Disconnecting
> > > cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above
> > > messages if any)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any help would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,