[NTLUG:Discuss] Can't login to CVS pserver over SSH tunnel

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Neil Aggarwal did write:

> MadHat:
> 
> I tried it in the bash shell and it acts the same:

> $ ssh cvs at dev.jammconsulting.com -L 2401:dev.jammconsulting.com:2410 open
> Could not create directory '/home/Neil Aggarwal/.ssh'.
> The authenticity of host 'dev.jammconsulting.com (204.130.252.205)' can't be
> established.
> RSA key fingerprint is 77:12:5a:f6:36:c3:40:e7:e8:cc:69:f4:31:7b:f9:13.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/Neil
> Aggarwal/.ssh/known_hosts).
> /tmp/filezIR4z5

Looks like you aren't getting your ssh connection; we need to tackle
that first.  Easiest way to test this is to try to open up a plain old
ssh terminal session to cvs at dev.jammconsulting.com.  If that doesn't
work, there's no way CVS is going to work.

Based on your output above, your problems are due to errors on the
client side.  Your ssh client is looking for ~/.ssh/ to store host
authentication keys, configuration files and so forth; on Windows, this
apparently translates to '/home/Neil Aggarwal/.ssh'.  Try creating that
directory.  (If you'd rather store your ssh config elsewhere, check your
ssh client docs for a way to override this location.)

Once you've done that, try a login again.  If that works, you should be
good to go: set up your port forwarding and try CVS again.

HTH,

Richard