RE: setup a cvs gateway to other cvs servers

[Jonathan Chen \(jonachen\)]

If possible not allowed to log into the gateway.  I would like an idea
that makes the Gateway server act as redirector to the other cvs
servers. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Wade Needham [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:37 AM
> To: Jonathan Chen (jonachen)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: setup a cvs gateway to other cvs servers
> 
> Are you allowing users to login to the gateway box?  If so, 
> then they login to the gateway box using ssh, and have it 
> configured to establish a tunnel to the CVS server in 
> question.  To do this, they might have an entry like this in 
> their ssh config file:
> 
>     Host cvs-gateway
>         HostName                      gateway.foo.com
>         HostKeyAlias                  cvs-gateway
>         User                          myusername
>         LocalForward                  2401    cvs-srvr1.foo.com:2401
> 
> Then, they would do something like this for their CVSROOT variable:
> 
>     CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/the/cvsroot
> 
> I use such a setup every day as I telecommute.
> 
> - Doug
> 
> Quoting Jonathan Chen (jonachen) (address@hidden):
> > Hello All,
> >  
> > I am wondering if it is possible to setup a secure(via ssh or secure
> > method) cvs gateway that would take you to all other cvs 
> repositories.
> > Here is what I want to accomplish....
> >  
> > OLD WAY:
> >  
> > Linux Farm of 20 servers going to 15 CVS repositories requiring 
> > opening up the firewall to access the 15 CVS servers.
> >  
> >  
> > NEW WAY:
> >  
> > Instead of going opening up 15 connections to access the 15 CVS 
> > servers, I would like to have ONLY 1 server acting as the 
> gateway to 
> > all 15 CVS servers that requires 1 connection for CVS downloads.
> >  
> > So if User A wants CVS Alpha, he would access the CVS 
> GATEWAY to reach
> > CVS Alpha.    If User B wants CVS Beta, he would only need 
> to connect to
> > CVS Gateway to reach CVS Beta.  So on...
> >  
> > I do not know a whole lot about CVS, but would like to 
> setup something 
> > similar to Oracle Oraname.ora dealing with different databases to 
> > retrieve and upload information for a client to use.
> >  
> >  
> > Any ideas how I can accomplish this task?
> 
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> 
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> Douglas Wade Needham - KA8ZRT        UN*X Consultant & UW/BSD 
> kernel programmer
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