Here's the solution I came to after dickin' around for hours with it a few months ago...
Install ssh from http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/. You _cannot_ have cygwin installed along side this port of openssh. If you want to use key authenication store your private key as c:\program files\networksimplicity\.ssh\id_rsa and follow the standard steps to enable it on the server. The drawback to this method is you're only allowed one private key for the entire box, meaning you cannot have multiple users with their own keys. But that shouldn't be a problem if its your own machine and nobody else touches it. Then you need to get the CVS tarball from cvshome.org. You'll run into a problem compiling the 1.11.2 client on Windows. For some reason a file was left out. Have a look at http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2002-April/027542.html, follow the instructions and it should build with no problem, except for the few hundred warnings. :) I'm assuming you're using VC 6 here. The reason I recommend using netsimp's ssh is that it runs as a native windows app. You don't need to fire up cygwin and run ssh from within the shell, which is hella inconvenient. Now if anybody else knows of a Windows ssh client that's open/free and sports key authenication I'd like to hear of it. I haven't tried to use WinCVS, so I'm of no help there, but hopefully this way will help you some. Personally I prefer the command line client over the GUI anyway. Now that I think about it, as long as your key is in the right place and WinCVS uses the right ssh executable it should work with any CVS client. Hopefully I didn't leave anything out, if I did, I apologize, Shane Bill Stoddard wrote: > When you figure it out, please update the developer docs (on > httpd.apache.org/dev/) with the info. > > Bill > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Graham Leggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:51 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: OT: CVS, SSH and Windows >> >> >>Hi all, >> >>I'm asking this here as there are people here who have probably got this >>to work, please mail me privately. >> >>I am trying to get WinCVS to connect to a CVS server via SSH. Both >>myself and another person have independantly followed the available docs >>and howtos, and have got nowhere - SSH insists on asking for a password >>on every connection attempt, and won't cooperate. >> >>What do Windows users here use to access CVS over SSH? Is it possible to >>describe what you did to make it work...? >> >>Regards, >>Graham >>-- >>----------------------------------------- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] "There's a moon >> over Bourbon Street >> tonight..." >> > >
