[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone using netbeans with a CVS server over SSL?

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Sunday, January 27, Neil Aggarwal did write:

> Hello:
> 
> I am trying to set-up a CVS server for my sources.  Since I want
> to make sure that everything is encrypted, I am using stunnel to
> encrypt the data using SSL.

<SNIP>

> Now, I have to get Netbeans to work with the server, but I can't figure
> out how to get it working.  
> 
> Has anyone used netbeans to access a repository from a CVS server
> over SSL?

Not familiar with netbeans, so this may or may not apply.

If you don't mind requiring that all of your CVS users have Unix shell
access to the server machine, you'll probably have a much easier time
if you use the `ext' access method and ssh instead of rsh.  I've been
doing this for a while; it works quite nicely.

You don't need a CVS daemon running on the server side, just sshd.  Set
your repository spec to :ext:user at server/path/to/repos, then set the
CVS_RSH environment variable on the *client* side to the ssh binary.

Depending on how your CVS and SSH client works, you may need to have
your users set up an ssh authentication key pair; I've seen Solaris CVS
get confused when the underlying transport mechanism asks for a
password.

HTH,

Richard