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

[Neil Aggarwal]

Richard:

I can't do an ssh to cvs at dev.jammconsulting.com since
the instructions I am following have the cvs user's shell
set to zzh.  That shell does nothing.  It exists immediately.

At the very end, ssh prints out this line:
  /tmp/filezIR4z5
That file exists on the server as a device.  I think
that means that the pipe was set-up correctly.  Is
that correct?

Thanks,
	Neil.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Richard Cobbe
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:59 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Can't login to CVS pserver over SSH tunnel
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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