Re: cvs read behind firewall?

[Christian Jönsson <chj at lin dot foa dot se>]

Thanks for your comments. This is one way of achieving
teh objective, to access the GCC code repository from
behind a firewall. However, I suspect that my specific
problem perhaps could be resolved also by allowing
the sshd at gcc.gnu.org this read-only acces to the
machine. Perhaps this idea is a good idea only it's not
possible with today's ssh/sshd. Perhaps it is, but it's not
configured to allow it. I simply don't know.

Anyway, here's what happens when I try to slogin
at gcc.gnu.org, again, using a bash shell...

administrator@BOTTEN ~
$ slogin -P -l anoncvs gcc.gnu.org
Permission denied.

administrator@BOTTEN ~

an to an other host outside of the firewall...

administrator@BOTTEN ~
$ slogin -P -l cj merlin.isy.liu.se
Warning: Server lies about size of server public key: actual size is 767
bits vs
. announced 768.
Warning: This may be due to an old implementation of ssh.
cj@merlin.isy.liu.se's password:

administrator@BOTTEN ~

where I aborted the slogin...

So, in summary, I can ssh myself through the firewall, but not cvs read
gcc.gnu.org...

Cheers,

/ChJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Buck" <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com>
To: "Christian Jönsson" <chj@lin.foa.se>
Cc: "gcc" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: cvs read behind firewall?


> > Any help with getting cvs access through my firewall is greatly
appreciated.
>
> Ask the people who administer your firewall if they will open up port 2401
> only for connections to gcc.gnu.org.  They may well agree to open up
> access to a trusted site, even if they are reluctant to open it up
> unconditionally.
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