Important CVS changes

The CVS repository access has been changed to log each user individually. Here is how to access the new CVS:

export CVS_RSH='ssh'
export CVSROOT=':ext:YOURUSER@frinkiac1.physics.drexel.edu:/var/lib/cvs/root'

Where YOURUSE is your frinkiac login name.

Then you can type cvs co basin just like before.
It will ask you for a password. This is just your frinkiac password.

Note: The new system uses ssh for authentication and transfer. For this reason, you will need to enter your password for any cvs activity. However, since it uses ssh, you can set up ssh shared keys so that you don't have to enter your password each time.

For future reference, to grant new frinkiac users cvs access, just add them to the cvsd group.

References: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_CVS_Server
Received on Sat May 27 07:37:54 2006