[cvsnt] Re: Linux setup problems

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Jan 26 16:54:05 GMT 2005


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Glen Starrett wrote:
> When you use SSH (or EXT) you aren't actually using a CVS protocol 
> per-se to communicate over the net.  The SSH handles the net comm, then 
> on the server side it runs CVS instead of your normal shell (you can see 
> what I mean in the link Mark offered).  Once it's local, I don't know 
> for a fact but I suspect it might be using the :LOCAL: protocol (not 
> sure though).

It's the client/server protocol without the authentication parts 
(although there is verification against passwd if SystemAuth=Yes, in the 
same way that sspi does it).

Tony



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