[Anthill] Problem connecting to CVS with SSH

[Matteo Risoldi]

Thanks, zou are confirming me the fact that Anthill (as other tools,  
in fact)does not support :ext with a password.
I'll create the keys.
Thanks again!

On Feb 22, 2006, at 02:03, Varban wrote:

> Hi Matteo,
>
> it looks like you need to do the cvs login when you are logged in  
> as the user
> that is running Anthill (the same user that is running Tomcat or  
> whatever
> servlet container you are using).Once you accept the rsa key, you  
> need to
> create an ssh key pair and install the public key on the cvs server  
> so that
> when you use ext, ssh will use the ssh key and you will not have to  
> enter a
> password (that is the standart way of using ext server and the only  
> way
> Anthill supports ext connection). If you do not want to deal with  
> ssh keys,
> you have to use a pserver connection and then you can manuallylogin  
> once and
> from then on cvs will use the .cvspass file in the home directory  
> to supply
> the password.
>
> Regards,
> Varban
>
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:42, Matteo Risoldi wrote:
>> I have a problem using Anthill on a CVS repository with SSH
>> authentication.
>>
>> So: I have set my Anthill project (coopn) to use the following  
>> CVSROOT:
>>     :ext:me at smv.unige.ch:/usr/local/cvsroot
>>
>> I have also set the CVS_RSH environment variable for the user me to
>> be "ssh".
>> Also, I have done manually a cvs checkout once to be sure that the
>> RSA key was added to the known_hosts file. In fact, the server
>> holding the CVS repository and the server running Anthill are the
>> same server, smv.unige.ch.
>>
>> When I try to build my project, it fails immediately. The weird thing
>> is, if I keep a console open (with user me logged in) when clicking
>> "Build", I get the request for authorizing the connecting server:
>>
>>     The authenticity of host 'smv.unige.ch (129.194.69.14)' can't be
>> established.
>>     RSA key fingerprint is 0f:08:dc:c6:95:50:fc:c1:06:52:0f:
>> 5e:df:b2:c4:0d.
>>     Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
>>
>> although as I said this server is already in the known_hosts file (I
>> have checked the fingerprint, it's the same I got when doing it
>> manually).
>> If I answer "yes", the console starts printing infinite lines with
>> the "y" character until I press ctrl-c (but the build had already
>> failed before answering).
>>
>> The catalina.out file, at the point of executing CVS, states:
>>
>>     Executing: cvs -d :ext:me at smv.unige.ch:/usr/local/cvsroot
>> checkout -A coopn
>>     smv.unige.ch: Connection refused
>>
>> Needless to say, if I run that same command manually it works (and
>> does not ask for RSA authentication).
>> Still, one detail is not clear to me, although I'm not sure it's
>> related: how is Anthill supposed to provide the ssh password for
>> connection?!?
>>
>> If anybody has an idea, that would be of great help.
>> Thanks,
>> Matteo
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