[ On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 17:46:37 (-0500), Michal Wallace wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ANN: cvssh - secure ext-to-pserver bridge
>
> There are several reasons this is more convenient than SSH:
>
> 1. Many users have a hard time setting up a SSH tunnel,
> whereas CVS_RSH=cvssh seems to be a lot easier for them.
Ah, excuse me, but you should NEVER have set up any tunnels with SSH to
use CVS with SSH! Just set CVS_RSH=ssh. It's two characters shorter
than with your method even! :-)
> 2. Using SSH requires giving the users a unix account on
> the server, rather than pserver's per-repository user
> list.
Duh. If you're doing authentication and authorisation on a unix-based
file server then you MUST, _M_U_S_T_ use a unique system account for
ever real-world user or else you might as well not use any
authentication whatsoever. Pserver has NO accountability from the
system's point of view. None whatsoever. Don't use pserver. Ever.
> 3. AFAIK, SSH doesn't remember your password the way
> pserver does.
Oh, come on now. There are any number of schemes for managing
authentication passpharases, etc. with SSH. RTFM.
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