USA Anonymous CVS

[Chris Rees]

On 17 March 2012 18:05, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Dan Lists <lists.dan at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
>>
>> USA: anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs (For ssh, use ssh version
>> 2 and no password is required.)
>>
>> SSH2 HostKey: 2048 53:1f:15:a3:72:5c:43:f6:44:0e:6a:e9:bb:f8:01:62
>> /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
>>
>> Example A-2. Using SSH to Check Out the src/ Tree:
>>
>> % cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
>> The authenticity of host 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org (216.87.78.137)' can't
>> be established.
>> DSA key fingerprint is 53:1f:15:a3:72:5c:43:f6:44:0e:6a:e9:bb:f8:01:62.
>> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
>> Warning: Permanently added 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org' (DSA) to the list of
>> known hosts.
>>
>> However, when I acutally issue the command, I get a different DSA key,
>> different IP, and it will not accept any password:
>>
>> # cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
>> The authenticity of host 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org (96.47.72.116)' can't
>> be established.
>> DSA key fingerprint is 4e:bc:48:a0:e1:27:0a:62:c8:da:45:31:d4:ad:b2:00.
>> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
>> Warning: Permanently added 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org' (DSA) to the list of
>> known hosts.
>> Password:
>> Password:
>> Password:
>> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
>> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
>>
>> Is the USA anonymous CVS server no longer operational?
>
> It's just ssh that isn't working as documented; this may have changed
> for security reasons.
> The pserver method still works, so things aren't completely offline.
> If ssh access is no longer supported, it should be removed from the
> Handbook, but I can't be sure there isn't just a configuration change
> needed.

Also, ssh access works just fine for the other servers.

Chris