On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Anders Dinsen wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Anders Dinsen wrote:
> > > [blah, blah]
> > 
> > Try "cvs login" first (password is "anoncvs"). You only have to do
> > that once: the password is saved in ~/.cvspass.
> 
> Thanks! That helped - I think. Now I just get connection time outs.
> Perhaps I should try a mirror. Meanwhile I downloaded the pkgsrc tarball,
> but I would very much like to get AnonCVS working.

Make sure you have CVSROOT exactly right...

	:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
 
> > According to the man page, CVSROOT in the environment overrides the
> > CVS/Root files (which were not set to anoncvs for 1.4.1). If that's
> > not true, try setting CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT in the environment, or
> > simply "cvs -d $CVSROOT update -A -P -d".
> 
> cvs complains about the 'non existing' root in CVS/Root, so it ignores
> it. CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT helps - now it does'nt complain.

Interesting
 
> > I recently discovered that ssh works with anoncvs, as long as you make
> > sure you're logging in as user "anoncvs". In ~/.ssh/config...
> > 
> >  Host	anoncvs.netbsd.org
> >  User	anoncvs
> > 
> > or CVS_RSH="ssh -l anoncvs" would probably work, too. In that case,
> > omit ":pserver:".
> 
> Are there any advantages over using basic pserver? For real CVS access,
> yes (security), but anoncvs should'nt require much of that?

Good point. I can think of only one singular advantage. If you do 
"ssh -l anoncvs.netbsd.org" you'll get a brief message explaining how
to set up CVSROOT. Receipt of this verifies that the server is up and
reachable.