Subject: Re: CVS and security.
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/05/2000 17:23:17
> > I thought that ssh/sshd might let me do it, but it doesn't seem to
> > directly support this kind of thing.  Am I missing something?  Or should I
> > use something like openssl or ssh-ip-tunnel?  (Or maybe openssh?)
> 
> ssh can do it; search the CVS documentation for CVS_RSH.  The summary
> is that you don't set up a daemon to provide CVS access; your users
> access the system via ssh and start a CVS process.

You mean substitute ssh for rsh?  Or have users login with ssh and do
local checkins?

I'll look around the cvs.info file, but I find .info files clumsy in some
ways (such as global searches for ``CVS_RSH'', say)


> I don't have CVS set up in this way right now or I'd offer
> examples. :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Giles
> 

  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com