Re: Question on CVS Branches

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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    rebehn@antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de wrote:
    > Quoting Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>:
    >> The documentation for CVS is not especially well-known for being inclusive.
    >> Are you using CVS over SSH or in pserver mode? The first case requires you to
    >> set up password-less SSH authentication via ssh-keygen, the latter uses the "cvs
    >> login" mechanism.
    >
    > I use CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs.
    > Is it possible to specify the password on the command line with cvs login (it
    > isn't secret anyhow)?

    6-sec% touch ~/.cvspass
    7-sec% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs login
    Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.de.freebsd.org:2401/home/ncvs
    CVS password:

    [ Use "anoncvs" for the password. ]

    8-sec% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
    cvs server: Updating src
    U src/COPYRIGHT
    U src/MAINTAINERS
    U src/Makefile
    U src/Makefile.inc1
    U src/README
    U src/UPDATING
    cvs server: Updating src/bin
    ^C...

    > How exactly do i set up password-less authentication over SSH? I wont be able
    > to create an SSH key and copy it over to the server??

    In this particular case (specificly, a read-only anonymous CVS repository), you
    can't use SSH.

    If you were using your own CVS repository, or if you became a FreeBSD developer
    with commit privileges, you would run "ssh-keygen" and create a RSA or DSA
    keypair using an empty passphrase. You'd place the public key
    ("~/.ssh/identity.pub", "~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub", etc) in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, or
    mail your key to the admin or CVS repo meister of cvs.freebsd.org, depending on
    the circumstances.... 

    -- 
-Chuck
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