[Savannah-hackers] Re: Problem with Apple Project Builder and your CVS

[Mathieu Godart]

Le dimanche, 9 fév 2003, à 00:23 Europe/Paris, Samuel Tardieu a écrit :

> On  9/02, Mathieu Godart wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> | So, when I launch my Terminal, it asks me my pass-phrase. Then, all
> | works, I can add and commit files without any problem.
> |
> | But on Project Builder, the status check goes wrong. This is what i  
> got
> | on the console:
>
> [...]
>
> I can see two obvious possibilities for such a failure:
>
>   1) ProjectBuilder does not inherit your environment, and cvs tries  
> to call
>      rsh instead of ssh

The first problem seems to be mine because I already set up a  
ssh-agent. When I launch PB from the Finder (the file browser of Mac OS  
X), the environment variables are not passed to him.

I finally understood how to pass the variables to the program. The good  
way is to launch a Terminal window, (in my case it launch ssh-agent ask  
my pass-phrase with this:
set exec_file=~/.ssh/agent_exec
ssh-agent > $exec_file
chmod +x $exec_file
source $exec_file
ssh-add
) and to launch the Project Builder application directly from there  
with the Apple command 'open'. Then the application receives the proper  
variables and become able to access to the ssh-agen.

There wasn't anything in the PB help, except that 'everything is  
automatic.' Nice, except when it doesn't work at all!

>   2) ProjectBuilder does not know how to request a password from the  
> user
>
> The second possibility is the one with the highest probability. You  
> should
> try to setup a ssh-agent on your machine, so that you don't have to  
> type
> your passphrase. Look at  
> http://www.withay.com/macosx/ssh-agent-jag.html
> for instructions on how to do this.

Thanks for your help!
Mathieu Godart

PS: It could be interesting to add it to the savannah FAQ. I finally  
found a good page :  
http://voronoi.ics.uci.edu/~mshafae/cgl/info/projectbuilder-cvs-ssh.html