Re: AW: Please help troubleshooting connection problem via SSH

[Chris Weiss]

address@hidden wrote:

> In a message of Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:15:31 +0200
> Received on Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:20:56 +0200
>
> Guus Leeuw jr. <address@hidden> wrote
> to: 'Chris Weiss' <address@hidden>
>
>  
>
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: address@hidden 
> > > [mailto:address@hidden Im 
> > > Auftrag von Chris Weiss
> > >
> > > FYI - the output of -t update is (the user/servernames have 
> > > been changed 
> > > to protect the innocent):
> > >
> > > C:\>"c:\Program Files\gnu\WinCvs 1.3\cvs" -z9 -t  update
> > >  -> main loop with 
> > > CVSROOT=<username>@cvs.<servername>.com:/usr/local/cvsroot
> > >
> > > And that's it... it'll sit until we ctrl-C out of it...
> > >      
> > Remove the -z9 and retry. (Not that I think it makes any jack difference)
> >    
>
> Probably not.
>
>  
>
> > Plus isn't CVSROOT meant to say something like :ext: in case of SSH?
> >    
>
> Exactly.  That CVSROOT as it appears above is broken.  Ought to be
> something like :ext:address@hidden:/path/to/repository
>
> And the env variable CVS_RSH must point to your ssh exectubable but the
> trace will reveal that problem next.  (There is provision in WinCVS to
> set that.)
>  

Those issues should be moot with the WinCVS client though, right? If the 
client is set to SSH for Authentication, that's enough (it works for all 
our other users...)

Thanks for all the help, gang!

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