[Mapserver-dev] MapServer CVS - does it support access via SSH?

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
Tue Apr 6 18:44:49 EDT 2004


Sean Gillies wrote:
> My new DSL modem/gateway's firewall is dummy-proof and blocks port 2401
> with no recourse that I can find.
> 
> Is cvs.gis.umn.edu configured so that I can port forward over SSH?  My
> first impression is no, because I just tried to ssh to cvs.gis.umn.edu
> and it rejected my login.
> 

CVS over SSH would require that everyone with CVS access have a shell 
account on the server... I doubt that UMN will want to open that up. 
I've always wished that CVS had a real encrypted protocol, that would be 
so much better and make life much easier than CVS over SSH.

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