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

[Simon Taylor]

On 04-Mar-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 04-Mar-2002, David Overton <dmo at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > -	<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.

The check.pl script uses X to communicate with remote users, so
using no-pty and removing the text above is the right thing to do.

I don't think X11 forwarding is enabled by default so I would
suggest replacing the line:

+       <li>  Set your CVS_RSH environment variable to "ssh".

with

+	<li> Set the CVS_RSH environment variable to be the name
+	of a shell script with the following contents:
+	<pre>
+		#!/bin/sh
+		exec ssh -X "$@"
+	</pre>

Simon.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-reviews mailing list
post:  mercury-reviews at cs.mu.oz.au
administrative address: owner-mercury-reviews at cs.mu.oz.au
unsubscribe: Address: mercury-reviews-request at cs.mu.oz.au Message: unsubscribe
subscribe:   Address: mercury-reviews-request at cs.mu.oz.au Message: subscribe
--------------------------------------------------------------------------