Re: cvs and ssh

[Alex Holst <a@area51.dk>]

Quoting Marco S Hyman (marc@snafu.org):
> How can I tell cvs to use a specific version of the ssh protocol?
> If I specify proto 2,1 in /etc/ssh_config hosts that only know
> protocol 1 fail with the message "Aborted by user!" when I try
> to do something like a cvs update.  Setting CVS_RSH to "/usr/bin/ssh -1"
> does not work.

Do you have an entry in ~/.ssh/config for the host you are accessing?

Host foo
Hostname foo.bar.com
Protocol 2
User elvis

and then:

$ cvs -d foo:/cvs get ....

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