I have seen several messages from people trying to get WinCVS and SSH 
working together.  Many of them are problems using the password
server 
(pserver) or just getting SSH to authenticate correctly.  Maybe 
someone can help me with my version of WinCVS <-> SSH woes.

I can connect from my NT 4.0 machine to a Unix system running Solaris 
2.7 using ssh2.  The authentication challenge is received and passed. 
Things run just fine.

If I execute "cvs -d repository-directory status" directly via ssh2 
the challenge is met, passed and cvs displays status information.  So 
I can make connections via ssh2, find my repository, and run cvs on 
the remote Unix system.

On the NT box when I use either the command line version of CVS or 
work through WinCVS, I set CVS_RSH to ssh2 and CVSROOT to 
:ext:my-login@machine:repository-directory

The authentication challenge is received (with WinCVS it is in a 
popped up DOS window) and I can enter my secure phrase.  At this
point 
everything stops cold.  If I login to the remote Unix system I see a 
'cvs server' process running just fine.  The local client is probably 
waiting for a response from the remote server.  The two are just not 
talking to each other.  I've turned on whatever verbose output I
could  
find and that did not tell me much more.

On the local NT side I'm using F-Secure SSH client v4.0 in Trial mode 
and WinCVS 1.1b13.  On the remote Unix side I believe it is
F-Secure's 
SSH code and CVS 1.10.

Any assistance is greatly appreciate.  I've banged my head against 
this one for awhile now.

So close and yet so far!
Thanks,
Jim


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