RE: [Savannah-hackers] Access Through Firewall

[evandro . menezes]

Sylvain,

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

That's too bad.  Pserver works fine with our set up here.  Our firewall is so 
strict that the only to go through it is using the HTTP proxy and SSH chokes at 
it.

> 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.

BTW, I'm using PuTTY on Linux.


> 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?

It doesn't.  The result is the same...

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

Googling about it, I found connect.c, which is a good candidate for 
ProxyCommand in ~/.ssh/config.  I got it to access savannah!

> 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.

I agree.  I really appreciate your time.

Thanks,


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