Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Shell account

[Nic Ferrier]

Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:

>  
> Le dim 28 avr 2002 à 20h00, address@hidden a écrit : 
> > Hi, 
> >  
> > nope, port 443 does not work either. I don't know about Kerberos, 
> > though. 
> >  
>  
> (But how do you log in on savannah ?) 
>  
> I think that the better way is to write to your Sys Admin saying that  
> his firewall policies creates you troubles. 
>  
> Have you tried exactly this (on cvs page) : 
> Firewall workaround 
>  
> People living behind a fascist firewall can use the port 443 (https) to  
> access the CVS tree with the :pserver: or :gserver: methods. 
> cvs -d ...subversions.gnu.org:443/cvsroot...  
> Since shell accounts permit to do many things on savannah (remove some  
> files), the better solution should to permit users behind "fascist"  
> firewall to access to the CVS with another port than to create account  
> for any user in this case. 

As noted in my last email, it's possible to get pserver (ie: anoncvs)
from the 443 port but not SSH.


Nic