Paul,
Since it appears that no one has responded yet I'll tell you what I've
learned after a similar fail attempt. Just for the record my setup is
similar wincvs 1.1b8 on NT4.0 SP 5. On the Unix Side the repository resides
on a Solaris 2.6 box
At 07:35 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> I have followed the instructions (faqs) at WinCVS.org to the
>letter,
its a good document. Who ever wrote it. Thanks it was a lot of help
> I am using WinCVS version 1.1b11 on an NT4 platform. VPN is
>not enabled. ssh client is downloaded (ssh -v yields: v1.2.14,
>winnt-4.0-x86) and installed. HOME is set to ssh directory
>(d:\ssh) and d:\ssh\.ssh is there. ssh-keygen has been run,
>identity file created (d:\ssh\.ssh\identity) as well as
>identity.pub and authorized_keys.
I've generated the identity files both on the unix side as well as on the
NT side (using f-secure) and used F-Secure 1.1, TTSSH 1.51 (tera term with
the ssh extentions) and from ssh 1.2.22 from
ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/contrib/ I tried several others too and they
either didn't support command line operation or whatever. I read somewhere
the win32 ssh-keygen was brain dead so for most of the tests I used the
keys generated on the Solaris box then ftp'd to my intel box
Without going through WinCvs I can connect to our Solaris box via ssh with
any of the above mentioned software
> CVSROOT is set in WinCVS Admin|Preferences|General. Admin at
>repository assures me that I am authorized write access.
>
> Authentication is set to SSH.
>
> WinCVS login attempts yields:
> > Set the password authentication first in the preferences !
I'm not sure if its needed but on the NT side I set the ssh environment
vars and CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/repodepot and made sure that ssh was
in the path.
The unix side was set up according to the wincvs document.
so what happened....
Even though every thing was set up properly at least as far as I could
tell. Wincvs would spawn ssh in a dos box and then hang... I later figured
that if I blindly typed in my password that wincvs would work... for some
reason I could never get it to work with my identity file
now the odd part is that a work associate got this all to work just fine on
and fairly easily the difference being that he has a static IP address and
my isp uses dynamically assigned IP addresses.
I not sure if that helps much Paul but if any one out there knows if
dynamic IP address cause problems with ssh please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Greg,
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