cvs read behind firewall?

[Robert Lipe]

Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:49:28PM +0100, Christian Jönsson wrote:
> > 
> > The machine is behind a firewall but I can ssh myself out using
> > non-privelaged
> > ports, i.e., ssh -P. Now, how do I do this with cvs?
> 
> One way to do it, is have a shell script that invokes ssh with -P and set that
> as your CVS_RSH (ie, the alias won't work, because cvs is forking $CVS_RSH
> either directlry or through /bin/sh).

Instead of the script, why not just write the right bits into ~/.ssh/config?
Something like:

	Host gcc.gnu.org
		UsePrivilegedPort no

this way you can control it on a per-host basis.