Hello Bob, > Lastly if you can't configure the system to avoid rsh for whatever reason then > in your specific environment you can set the CVS_RSH variable to use ssh. > > For sh, bash, ksh, zsh: > > CVS_RSH=ssh > export CVS_RSH
This worked. I'm using public computers at a library, so I can't make changes to the system. Thank you very much for your help! Laurence > Gesendet: Montag, 15. Januar 2018 um 20:38 Uhr > Von: "Bob Proulx" <[email protected]> > An: "Laurence Finston" <[email protected]>, "Bob Proulx" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Betreff: [sr #109445] Developer download using CVS fails > > Follow-up Comment #1, sr #109445 (project administration): > > Hello Laurence, You appear to be using rsh instead of ssh trying to access > CVS. You may not be familiar with rsh but that is one of the classic BSD > 'r'commands along with rlogin and rcp. But the web is a hostile place and > those commands use the trust model from 1985 and are no longer safe for use on > the hostile Internet. > > Please use the ssh command to access CVS and for any other remote access on > the net. It's safe and uses authenticated encrypted access. Savannah only > allows use of SSH. > > You didn't say what system you are using for your client access. If it were a > Debian system (or derived from Debian) then I would suggest this following: > > apt-get purge rsh-client > > That will purge rsy, rcp, and rlogin client programs from your system. They > are not safe on the hostile Internet and are never appropriate there. They > are only useful on a private LAN for use with a historical legacy > environment. > > If you can't remove it then you can configure it away. Use the > update-alternatives command. > > update-alternatives --display rsh > > sudo update-alternatives --config rsh > > If you can't remove rsh then you can use update-alternatives --config to > configure it to select ssh instead of netkit-rsh. > > Lastly if you can't configure the system to avoid rsh for whatever reason then > in your specific environment you can set the CVS_RSH variable to use ssh. > > For sh, bash, ksh, zsh: > > CVS_RSH=ssh > export CVS_RSH > > For csh, tcsh: > > setenv CVS_RSH ssh > > Please let me know if this helps you with your access. :-) > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109445> > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via/by Savannah > http://savannah.gnu.org/ > >
