Setting up SSH-Based CVS in Windows?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday June 4, 2002 @06:30AM from the not-all-ENVs-are-created-equal dept.

cromacks asks: "I am trying to set up CVS on my Windows 2000 machine so that I can checkout repositories from our server. As far as I know, it uses ssh authentication, and that seems to be giving me the problems. I'm using cvs from cvshome.org through my command line, and I have already set my environment variables (HOME, CVSROOT, and CVS_RSH=c:\WINNT\plink). The problem is, when i go to do the checkout, i receive the following error: ' from cvs serverning: unrecognized response 'cromacks@cs.bc.edu's password: it repeats that line until I Ctrl-c. Any suggestions?"

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Wincvs+plink+pagent by Antity-H · 2002-06-04 08:18 · Score: 2, Interesting

I personally use Wincvs and plink to do the actual cvs operations and I use a public/private key pair and pagent to avoid any nasty password prompt
It has been working perfectly for a few months now.
You can find the documentation you need to set this up there :
http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_ssh.htm
or there
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?doci d=766&group_id=1
in any case if you want to avoid any such error as you describe I higly recommend you use the private/public key pair and an agent.