On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:19:52PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > In mid august i had to communicate with an antique machine. For that i > had to build me a working rsh client from source to overcome this Debian > softlink hack: > /usr/bin/rsh -> /etc/alternatives/rsh -> /usr/bin/ssh > Now my /usr/bin/rsh is a real rsh client which i have to avoid using > with savannah's CVS. ... > I read: > > "Another reason for rejection as above can be that you failed to set > the CVS_RSH environment variable to ssh [...] Without this, cvs will > be trying to use rsh instead of ssh for the connection, and rsh is not > allowed (it's insecure by design)." > > The "rejection as above" possibly refers to > > "If, when (for example) you try to use cvs, you're rejected with > Permission denied" > > The error symptom for me was not "permission denied" but rather timeout > after 127 seconds. > Maybe one should mention this in the text.
Thank you, I've updated https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SshAccess/.
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