cvs read behind firewall?

[Robert Boehne]

Christian Jönsson wrote:
> 
> hmm, trying this from home, where I have no firewall, I still can't use
> cvs/ssh access:
> 
> [chj@arnljot chj]$ unalias ssh
> unalias: `ssh' not an alias
> [chj@arnljot chj]$ export CVS_RSH=ssh
> [chj@arnljot chj]$ cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@gcc.gnu.org:/cvs/gcc checkout gcc
> Executing /usr/bin/ssh1 for ssh1 compatibility.
> Permission denied.
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
> if any)
> [chj@arnljot chj]$
> 
> So, I guess that the problem here is the inability of gcc.gnu.org to
> handle
> read-only cvs/ssh access. But, I must also say that perhaps this is
> intended
> by the GCC team.

I don't see any references to anonymous cvs access via ssh on the
gnu.gcc.org
web pages, it does however give information relevant to anonymous access
through the pserver method.  I much prefer pserver for anonymous access,
XFree86 uses ssh for anonymous access, and I think it is overkill for
users
to have to edit window manager startup files (as is commonly done with
ssh-agent)
just to get what pserver provides simply.

My $0.02

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