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2.1 RC3 If you use the 'ext' connection method the stderr stream is discarded and the command used is not shown to the user. This has caused me much grief in trying to setup a 'ext' connection because I wasn't able, short of debugging our own code, to figure out why the connection was failing. We should: 1. send stderr when opening the connection to the CVS console. 2. send the command to the CVS console.
I agree this bug makes setting up and debugging an ext connection miserable. I'm adding a script I wrote that helps (on posixlike platforms only) to bug 6892.
Under windows (XP, 2000), when you try to use an external ssh client using the ssh2 protocole, the client is launched but it is impossible to type the password in a "DOS Command Window" because none "DOS Command Window" has been launched!!! I test several clients: - ssh2(from www.ssh.com) - plink - openSSH Always the same result... Nothing appends and about the timeout, an error message is apparearing explaining the connection was not established, aso... So the client is launching in a "kind of background task" unaccessible. The same test under Linux (debian Woody) confirm this behaviour because it was possible to put the ssh client in "backgroung" to foreground using the command "fg". So it is cleary a problem specific to Windows. I've also test the www.jcraft.plugin for using ssh2 protocol (extssh2). this plugin works perfectly under 2000 pro and XP pro but not under XP family (at this moment). regards Yannic
Here is an entry from the Eclipse CVS FAQ that you may find helpful http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm- home/docs/online/cvs_features2.0/cvs-faq.html#ssh_1 How do I use SSH to communicate with the server? The pserver protocol sends passwords over the network in plaintext. Many people prefer to establish a secure connection using SSH. Eclipse supports two methods of connecting to CVS repositories using SSH. To use the Eclipse's built-in SSH support, simply specify "extssh" as the connection method type when creating the repository connection. To use SSH support from an external tool, you must: 1) Specify "ext" as the connection method type when creating the repository connection. 2) Window->Preferences->Team->CVS->Ext Connection Method. On this page, specify the name and location of your external ssh client. (For example, "C:\plink.exe" or "/usr/local/bin/ssh"). Also specify the name and location of the CVS binary on the server. The default value is often correct. 3) Ensure that you can log on to the server using the external SSH tool without specifying a password. Note: In Eclipse 2.1, you can also specify (on the Ext Connection Method preference page) the parameters to be passed to the SSH client, including the password.
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