[cvsnt] Re: Connecting from Linux to a Win2k server

Gerhard Fiedler lists at connectionbrazil.com
Sat Jun 26 13:47:23 BST 2004


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>> I have a cvsnt server installed on a Win2k system, and usually advise my
>> users to use the sspi protocol. That works fine as long as they are on a
>> Windows machine. But I have two problems with this configuration:
>> 
>> 1- What do I tell Linux users? I also have installed the ssh protocol. Does
>> it simply work, so to speak "out of the box"? Or is some other installation
>> on the server (ssh client) necessary for that?
> 
> There is a SSPI client-only protocol that works under linux, so they can 
> connect directly with sspi.

Are you saying that a Linux user could connect with something like 

cvs -d :sspi:user at myhost:/myrepo login 

and it would work?

> SSH server requires an SSH server on the server (sounds redundant...), 
> which isn't perfect or trivial under Windows.  Search the archives here 

I did that, and as you say, it doesn't look trivial. I also haven't yet
found something good about the interaction between cvsnt and ssh. It also
seems that I've read that with ssh, cvsnt can't run as a service.

So if there was a different means, that would be cool.

>> 2- It seems that clients that run on Win9x systems use non-encrypted
>> communication when connecting through sspi. Is there a protocol that's easy
>> to install and configure for this platform that's encrypted?
> 
> I think sserver will work that way, and AFAIK it's easy to use with 
> CVSNT.  Win9x systems aren't as secure--but I think you might run into 
> that trouble with the Linux SSPI client as well???

Thanks. I'll look into the sserver protocol.

Gerhard



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