CVS Server with freebsd

[Ian Lord]

thanks !

I'll check into this (ssh)

Thanks a lot for your help

At 12:17 2005-12-03, lars wrote:
>Ian Lord wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a cvs server for our internal development...
> >
> > I may be blind, but I didn't find any ports for this in the ports
> > tree... Do I need to compile it from the source or is there an easier
> > way (port)
> >
> > I saw a pserver wrapper for cvs ( port = cvsd) in the port but not the
> > actual cvs server
>You don't need to "install" a CVS server, or port for that matter.
>
>
>
>I advise you to go to cvshome.org to read the documentation on how to set up
>a source code repository with CVS.
>
>I also recommend not to use pserver if you can avoid it.
>
>You can authenticate all CVS users via local accounts and SSH.
>
>With two environmant variables
>CVS_ROOT=...
>CVS_RSH=...
>the users then make their local CVS clients use SSH to authenticate with the
>CVS server and transmit their commits enrypted.
>
>In this way you don't need a CVS daemon running on the server.
>
>Kind regards
>Lars
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