Re: :ext: , ssh :pserver: relation question

[Ronald Petty]

Ops, I meant CVS_RSH.  So I was close :).  Thanks for pointing out -t. 
I do have ssh-agent set up and running.  Just was curious of what was
REALLY happening behind the scenes.  Thanks for the help.

Ron

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 14:29, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> Ronald Petty <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > So could someone explain what is going on then with ext and RSH_CVS?
> 
> Nothing at all happens in this case as RSH_CVS is not the environment
> variable that is consulted by the :ext: method.
> 
> > For example,
> > when I do
> > export RSH_CVS=ssh
> 
> Try using this:
> 
>   export CVS_RSH=ssh
> 
> if you want to use ssh as your transport. You may also find it useful to
> use 'ssh-agent' as a place to hold your credentials so that you are not
> prompted for a passphrase for every cvs command.
> 
> > export CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot
> > then 
> > cvs co somemodule
> > 
> > what is actually happening is
> > 
> > ssh address@hidden 'cvs -d /cvsroot co somemodule'
> > 
> > Is this correct?
> 
> Almost correct.
> 
> You can see what is actually happning if you use the 'cvs -t co
> somemodule' command. Basically, what happens is the equivalent of this
> command:
> 
>   ${CVS_RSH:-rsh} -l user someserver ${CVS_SERVER:-cvs} server
> 
> and then the client communicates with the remote server to cause the
> checkout to happen on the server and the differences to be transfered
> back to the client.
> 
>       Good luck,
>       -- Mark
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 03:18, Wolfgang Mettbach wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> > > > Ronald Petty <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > 
> > > >> Could someone explain the difference between using :ext: (with
> > > >> CVS_RSH=ssh) over using pserver and having tcpwrapper listen on 2401?
> > > >> ...
> > > > ...
> > > > With pserver, your password is kept in a trivially obscured token in a
> > > > $HOME/.cvspass file and sent over the network in the clear. Once you
> > > 
> > > The file ".cvspass" seems to be created on Linux systems only. When I use
> > > WinCVS running on "MS Bluescreen" to connect to a pserver I can't find any
> > > file like ".cvspass" anywhere on my harddisks.
> > > 
> > > Does WinCVS store the password at all or does it just keep it in memory? 
> > > What
> > > about other IDEs like Eclipse? Has anyone experience with this concerning
> > > password management?
>