[DotGNU]Setting up developer CVS access

[Rhys Weatherley]

I'm forwarding this to the list, because other developers
may be interested in what they need to do to set up
CVS write access.  For CVS read access, see the
instructions for anonymous CVS on Savannah.

Cheers,

Rhys.

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> Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:17:51 +1000
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> Charlie Carnow wrote:
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> > I am unable to get any access, at all. I keep posting the key generated
> > from ssh-keygen, but cvs usally rejects or me, or says I'm not typing in
> > the right password. Could it be because the comment at the end is
> > address@hidden It would be great if you could help.
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> You must set ssh to use the right protocol.  Put the following
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> Protocol 1
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> The "address@hidden" is just the key identifier.  It doesn't
> really matter what it is.
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> You also need to set "CVS_RSH=ssh" in your environment,
> or cvs will use rsh instead of ssh.  Here is a script that I use,
> called "cvsgnu":
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> #!/bin/sh
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> export CVS_DOTGNU='address@hidden:/cvsroot/dotgnu-pnet/'
> cvs -z3 -d$CVS_DOTGNU $*
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> Put your own Savannah userid into the script, instead of
> "rweather", of course.  Then do "cvsgnu co pnet".
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> I hope this helps.  It's a bit of a fiddle, but works like
> a charm once everything is in place.
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> Cheers,
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> Rhys.
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