Re: connection using pserver

[Riechers, Matthew W]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> --On Friday, January 17, 2003 4:46 PM -0500 Larry Jones
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > If you're at all concerned about security, you should
> > not be using pserver, you should be using :ext: with SSH.
> 
> We started down this path but couldn't get it working on Windows with
> cygwin ssh. (Server is a Red Hat box, though.) Is there a cookbook
> somewhere that explains how to make that scenario work?
> 
> For other tunneling (eg. X) I've been using the latest PuTTY, which seems
> to work pretty well. Has anyone set up a Windows CVS client using PuTTY?

Yes. The PuTTY documentation
<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/docs.html> includes
everything you should need for the authentication and connection end of
things. I'm using WinCVS 1.3.6.1 Beta 6 (Local Build 1). The 1.2x series
didn't seem to play nice with the PuTTY suite, and more current versions
may also have issues. The only "trick" I can think of is that my
$CVSROOT uses a PuTTY session vs. the real server name.

-Matt