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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Mar-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 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.

That only works if the remote user is using X,
which is not necessarily the case.
So I still think it no-pty should not be used
and the text above should stay.

> +	<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>

This is a good idea.

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