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Re: CVS Server on SSL?



begin  Ben Collins  quotation:

> I strongly suggest using CVS over SSH. It's easy to setup. Just make
> sure the server that your CVS repo is on has sshd installed. Then on the
> client do:
> 
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> 
> cvs -d :ext:<username>@cvs.server.com:/repo co myproj

Yes, I use cvs with ssh this way. Works fine.

> Then, you can work as you normally would, had you used pserver. If you
> want to avoid having to type your SSH passphrase for every access to the
> server, then I suggest using ssh-agent.

How is ssh-agent different from just running ssh-keygen to create a
key pair with an empty passphrase and putting the public key into
~/.ssh./authorized_keys on the cvs machine?

Craig

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