On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:18:10PM -0700, Sander Temme wrote: > > When you figure it out, please update the developer docs (on > > httpd.apache.org/dev/) with the info. > >> and howtos, and have got nowhere - SSH insists on asking for a password > >> on every connection attempt, and won't cooperate. > You need to convince CVS to use public key authentication. Are you using the > cygwin ssh? In that case, generate a public/private key pair using > ssh-keygen. The private key goes (probably already is) in the ~/.ssh > directory; copy the public key over to the ssh server and rename/append to > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. If you have generated ssh2 compatible keys, that > file should be named authorized_keys2. Proof of the pudding: if you can ssh > in without specifying password from the shell, WinCVS should be able to do > it, too. From the shell, debug using ssh -v.
You may also want to look at using pageant (PuTTY ssh-agent), which will authenticate pass-phrases upon startup, to allow passphraseless login. <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/> On MacOS X.2 use <http://www.opendarwin.org/~kevin/SSHAgentStartup.tar.gz> -- Sander van Zoest +1 (619) 881-3000 Yahoo!, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.yahoo.com/> <http://sander.vanzoest.com/>
