  
Introduction
CVS servers can transfer data via the secure shell (ssh)
protocol. SSH is preferable to pserver due to its superior
encryption of passwords.
If you want to develop open-source software that's hosted on SourceForge,
you have to use SSH.
Please note that TortoiseCVS
has built-in support for SSH (hooray!) and the latest version of
CVSNT has some level of support for it,
although I haven't been able to get it to work.
TortoiseCVS Configuration
This is by far the easiest strategy because
TortoiseCVS supports SSH out of the
box!
Hiding Your Password without Public Keys
If you want to avoid typing your password at the command line for each
operation and don't have the ability to put your public key on the SSH
server...
- Create the following one-line Perl script and save it as
my_ssh_cvs.pl
system("plink.exe", "-ssh", "-pw", "YOURPASSWORD", @ARGV);
- Use PERL2EXE or
ActiveState's perldevkit
(perlapp -f
my_ssh_cvs.pl) to create an executable
from the script, e.g., my_ssh_cvs.exe
- Delete
my_ssh_cvs.pl
- Run WinCVS
- Select Admin/Preferences...
- Click Settings... (for the ssh protocol)
- Click "If ssh is not in the PATH" and enter
my_ssh_cvs.exe
- For "additional SSH options", leave it blank
Troubleshooting
See here.
Setting up CVSNT Server Access via SSH on Windows
I have not tried this myself. Theoretically it should be possible
to run CVSNT via SSH as long as you
install a SSH server on the CVS
server.
Cygwin has a free SSH server
for Windows.
There is serious a problem with the Cygwin server.
Also, try VanDyke VShell.
It doesn't have the public key authentication bug and it's a heck of a lot
easier to install.
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