cvs and ssh on FC2

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Fri Jul 23 18:22:24 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 11:02, Nina Pham wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to setup a CVS server running via ssh on FC2 system. Can 
> anyone help? I was able to setup the CVS server via pserver, but i don't 
> like it because of the security problem. Thanks

Yes-turn off pserver and have your _clients_ use ssh.  I use something
similar to this:

export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:user at server:/cvs/project

`cvs co .` will ask for the user's password and connect via ssh.  It is
really quite simple.

Forrest





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