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

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Monday, January 28, Neil Aggarwal did write:

> Richard:
> 
> I generated a authorization key pair using the ssh utilities.
> 
> Then, I went to netbeans and started a new project.  I
> went to the file system and tried to mount a CVS filesystem.
> 
> I set the CVS_RSH to
> C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure Shell\ssh2.exe
> since I am using secure shell from ssh.com.
> 
> When I go to check out the module, it simply hangs. 
> 
> Any other ideas?

Hm...I was working with the assumption that your client machine was
running Unix, which is apparently not the case.  Finding the Windows
equivalents to these tools may not be straightforward.

First thing to check: can you establish an ssh connection to the server
machine for a normal login shell?  Can you do this without having to
type a password or passphrase?  On a Unix system, for best results with
CVS-over-ssh, you want to have the private key loaded into core at login
so you don't have to authenticate yourself for each CVS operation.  With
OpenSSH, you use ssh-agent and ssh-askpass; I don't know what the
Windows equivalents are to these tools (if they exist at all).

If that doesn't work out, I don't have any other ideas.  You may want to
check out the info-cvs mailing list; send mail to
info-cvs-request at gnu.org to subscribe.  It's a moderate-traffic
list---well, moderate in comparison with, say, debian-user: only 40-50
messages a day.

Richard