using CVS with SSH

[eafritz]

Help!

I've gotten this to work once before, and can't figure out why I 
can't do it again...  I'm trying to use cvs to get to a repository on 
a server that will only allow ssh connections (no xinetd etc, just 
sshd).  I have setup my ssh connection with public/private keys and 
use ssh-agent/ssh-add to prepare.  I know this is correct because I 
can run ssh -l user host and connect no problem (does not require any 
passwords etc)

But...
When I use CVS it just hangs... the security log on the server 
doesn't even show any activity for the ssh server.  eventually my cvs 
command comes back with the error:

###.###.###.###: Connection refused
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above 
messages if any)

(where ###.###.###.### is the ip of my cvs server)

my CVSROOT is set to:

:ext:address@hidden:/path/to/repository

and I've verified the settings there about five hundered times.

I've also got CVS_RSH="ssh"

Anybody got any clues???  I just don't understand why ssh would work 
fine but cvs wouldn't :(

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Eric