Re: [savannah-help-public] Stuck trying to log onto cvs

[Bob Proulx]

Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> I'm using OpenSUSE with KDE desktop.

I am surprised that ssh-agent isn't being set for you automatically.
And unfortunately OpenSUSE is one of the distros of which I am not
very familiar.  I don't know what I would suggest there.  But knowing
that maybe one of the others on the list will have a suggestion.

Does OpenSUSE's KDE source the ~/.xsession at login time?  If so that
that would be a good place to add:

  eval $(ssh-agent -s)

That would start up an agent when you log in and set the variables for
later processes.

Also there is a package 'keychain' that is useful too.  I will mention
it.  I use it.  But it needs some understanding to use properly.

> I've now added the key to the ssh background thingy, so I'm trying
> again.

I looked at your account.  You have not added a proper ssh key to your
profile.  You have added only part of it.  Missing is the "ssh-rsa"
part.  When you upload a key you need to paste in the entire line and
not just the middle part of the line.  There are normally three chunks
of data in the line.  Starts with ssh-sa in the first, the
AAAAB3... long base64 hex string, finishing with a comment that is
usually your email address.

Please go to your ssh keys edit page for your account.  Delete the old
and paste in a fresh copy of the new with the entire line.

  https://savannah.gnu.org/my/admin/editsshkeys.php

> You say that the 'web' directory for a Savannah project is
> separate from cvs so let's talk about that, because I'm trying to
> add an HTML page where there is currently a broken link with no
> page. If that doesn't need SSH then I'm doing the wrong thing!

Since you are sending me a bunch of messages I will send this back
right now so you can work on it and then I will send more description
in a follow-up message after this one.

Bob