On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 04:07:24PM +0100, David Forbes wrote:
> > > Is it possible to set CVS_RSH to some devious value, so that it uses the
> > > basic ssh connection backwards?
> >
> > Not quite. You can however open an ssh forwarded port and ssh back down
> > that.
> >
> > A%> ssh -R 2200:localhost:22 user@C
> > ...
> > C%> setenv CVS_RSH 'ssh -p 2200'
> 
> Sadly:
> 
> shonky:david$ export CVS_RSH='ssh -p 2200'
> shonky:david$ export CVSROOT=localhost:/usr/cvsroot
> shonky:david$ cd cvstest
> shonky:cvstest$ cvs co WinAG
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot exec ssh -p 2200: No such file or directory
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
> any)
> shonky:cvstest$

Right - I didn't test it. Here's the fix -

Create a program as follows:

#!/bin/sh
ssh -p 2200 $*

(Remember to chmod +x it) Now you can set its name as your CVS_RSH
variable.

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