Re: Cannot commit because "cvs.sv.gnu.org: Connection timed out"

[Ineiev]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:19:52PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 
> In mid august i had to communicate with an antique machine. For that i
> had to build me a working rsh client from source to overcome this Debian
> softlink hack:
>   /usr/bin/rsh -> /etc/alternatives/rsh -> /usr/bin/ssh
> Now my /usr/bin/rsh is a real rsh client which i have to avoid using
> with savannah's CVS.
...
> I read:
> 
>   "Another reason for rejection as above can be that you failed to set
>    the CVS_RSH environment variable to ssh [...] Without this, cvs will
>    be trying to use rsh instead of ssh for the connection, and rsh is not
>    allowed (it's insecure by design)."
> 
> The "rejection as above" possibly refers to
> 
>   "If, when (for example) you try to use cvs, you're rejected with
>    Permission denied"
> 
> The error symptom for me was not "permission denied" but rather timeout
> after 127 seconds.
> Maybe one should mention this in the text.

Thank you, I've updated https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SshAccess/.

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