Re: [Savannah-hackers] CVS access to savannah.gnu.org

[Nic]

First up I'm sending this to savannah-hackers coz it really should be
recorded. Sorry if you feel that's impolite.


"Andrew V. Samoilov" <address@hidden> writes:

> > > I am one of the Midnight Commander developers and I have write
> > > access to mc repository.
> > > 
> > > But corporative firewall allow http, https and ftp only.
> > > Is there any way to commit for me without ssh access?
> >  
> > Can you use the :pserver: server hiding behind 443 to check stuff out
> > with anoncvs?
> > 
> > If you can do that we _may_ be able to fix your problem.
> > 
> > Please let us know.
> 
> Sorry for inconvinience, but can you tell me how to check this step by step?
> I downloaded proxytunnel, but my proxy denies connect to 22 port.

You shouldn't need proxytunnel to use the pserver host on port
443. proxytunnel might be a better solution but I think we'd have to
support the other end and I'm not sure that we do that yet.

So here's how you do an anonymous checkout with the special pserver
service:

  $ cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:443/cvsroot/XXX login
  Password: [ENTER] 
  $ cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:443/cvsroot/XXX co YYY


If that works it means your firewall is simply passing stuff through
on port 443.

Please try that and let us know.

-- 
Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk