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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail 
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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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