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Jim Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On a shared webhost, my username is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and
> the hostname is "jimrandomh.org". With ssh, I can log in fine with
> "ssh -l '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' jimrandomh.org". However, I can't
> find a way to get CVS to pass the correct options. If I use
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@jimrandomh.org:/cvs init
> Then it misparses this as user:jbabcock,
> host:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If I use
> export [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cvs -d :ext:jimrandomh.org:/cvs init
> then it just ignores the USER environment variable. There doesn't
> seem to be any option to specify the username separately (like ssh's
> -l).
>
> So, how do I use CVS if my username contains an @ character?
Add the following two lines to your $HOME/.ssh/config file:
Host jimrandomh.org
User [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now you should be able to use
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d :ext:jimrandomh.org:/cvs init
with no problems. The ssh executable itself will send the correct
identification for you.
-- Mark
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