[m-rev.] for review: update page on remote CVS

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Mar-2002, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> w3/information/developers/remote_cvs.html:
> Index: remote_cvs.html
...
> +		<li> Create a file <tt>.ssh/authorized_keys</tt> in the
> +			user's home directory and add the user's public key to
> +			that file.  The key should be all on one line, and at
> +			the start of the line you should add the string
> +			<pre>
> +	command="cvs server",no-port-forwarding,no-pty
> +			</pre>
> +			This prevents the user from doing anything with their
> +			account except using the CVS server.
> +	</ol>
> +
> +	<li> 
> +	Access via Windows should work just fine.  Most firewalls are
> +	  setup to allow ssh access through.  You can get a free
>  	  binary (and source) CVS for Windows from 
>  	  <a href="http://www.cyclic.com/">www.cyclic.com</a>.
>  	  Also there is a product called 
>  	  <a href="http://www.wincvs.com/">WinCVS</a> that should
>  	  work (although we haven't tried it ourselves).

It's worth mentioning here that CVS is also included with Cygwin.

> -
> -	<li> There are some checks that are done via questions.  In
> -	particular, our CVS repository does checks for up-to-date
> -	copyright messages on all files.  These checks don't work very
> -	well using the CVS `pserver' as mentioned here -- when you check
> -	in it will complain that it doesn't know how to interact with
> -	you.  Contact us if this is a big problem -- we know some
> -	workarounds.

They probably don't work well when using `ssh' without a pty either.
So (a) this text should stay (just modified to not be specific to
CVS `pserver') and (b) the suggestion about putting no-pty in the
~user/.ssh/authorized_keys file should probably be removed.

-- 
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The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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