Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:15:24 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-CVSROOT@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail Message-ID: <199802271615.JAA04081@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <472.888572485@time.cdrom.com> References: <19980227101302.39170@follo.net> <472.888572485@time.cdrom.com>
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> > For your convenience, we repeat some of the magic tricks of using CVS
> > with SSH below:
>
> There are even easier ways, as I've already pointed out to Nik:
> setenv CVS_RSH ssh
> do-local-cvs() {
> setenv CVSROOT /home/ncvs
> [ -f CVS/Root ] && echo $CVSROOT > CVS/Root
> }
> do-remote-cvs() {
> setenv CVSROOT freefall.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs
> [ -f CVS/Root ] && echo $CVSROOT > CVS/Root
> }
> cvscommit() {
> do-remote-cvs
> cvs commit $*
> do-local-cvs
> }
Nasty, but effective. I wouldn't recommend it though. :(
> Yes, ssh-agent is a good idea. Starting it on your window manager is,
> however, not such a good idea since it won't include any of the
> clients in your .xsession/.xinitrc and some of those are usually
> xterms in the typical scenario. Far better to have (assuming that
> you're using xdm and .xsession):
What does ssh-agent do? I've never used it, nor had any reason to.
Nate
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