CVS through .SSH

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CVS through .SSH

by Arvind Kanaka Raju :: Rate this Message:

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Hi, Thanks for all the support provided earlier,

Background: we are CVS-Admin for an organization supporting Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.21 (client/server)

Current Scenario: we are currently authenticating CVS users through :pserver protocol.

Requirement : Kindly let us know if there is a possibility of authenticating all users through .ssh and what are the merits through .ssh.

Please provide us a detailed documentation on how to setup .ssh authentication if any and which would help us big way.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Arvind.K.R

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CVS through .SSH

by Arvind Kanaka Raju :: Rate this Message:

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Hi, Thanks for all the support provided earlier,

Background: we are CVS-Admin for an organization supporting Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.21 (client/server)

Current Scenario: we are currently authenticating CVS users through :pserver protocol.

Requirement : Kindly let us know if there is a possibility of authenticating all users through .ssh and what are the merits through .ssh.

Please provide us a detailed documentation on how to setup .ssh authentication if any and which would help us big way.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Arvind.K.R

| Software Engineer |

| Infosys Technologies Limited - MCity| Mob: 9940104010|

| arvind_raju@...| www.infosys.com |

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Re: CVS through .SSH

by Todd Denniston :: Rate this Message:

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Arvind Kanaka Raju wrote, On 09/14/2008 11:14 PM:

> Hi, Thanks for all the support provided earlier,
>
> Background: we are CVS-Admin for an organization supporting
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.21 (client/server)
>
> Current Scenario: we are currently authenticating CVS users
> through :pserver protocol.
>
> Requirement : Kindly let us know if there is a possibility
> of authenticating all users through .ssh and what are the
> merits through .ssh.

Pro ssh:
encrypted sessions, i.e., your code is kept confidential over the wire (to the
level of confidentiality the encryption ssh can provide), and the encryption
provides a level of integrity on the data to.

PKI/crypto key login and server keys, i.e., the user can authenticate that the
server s/he is using is the intended server, and with PKI/crypto keys there
are no passwords used on the wire.

proven and audited authentication code, which you don't get with :pserver: .

You are using the system's access controls, which are usually stronger/more
flexible than cvs's.

You _can_ configure sshd to only allow the users to run specific commands on
the server.

Con ssh:
Each user has to have a real system account, that is maintained by the system
level admin.

If you are using PKI/crypto keys, then admins and user will need to learn how
to use them. (ssh-agent)

Locking the baseline from read/write means either changing the
permissions/ownership of the baseline directories or setting /etc/nologin,
instead of messing with the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/readers|writers files.

>
> Please provide us a detailed documentation on how to
> setup .ssh authentication if any and which would help
> us big way.
>

http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_2.html#SEC28
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cvs+ssh&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

> Thanks in advance
> Regards,
> Arvind.K.R
> | Software Engineer |
> | Infosys Technologies Limited - MCity| Mob: 9940104010|
> | arvind_raju@...<mailto:arvind_raju@...>| www.infosys.com<http://www.infosys.com/> |
>
>

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