[cvsnt] Using plink for secure connection from CVSNT to a Linux CVS Repository

Torsten Martinsen torsten at tiscali.dk
Thu Jun 3 21:22:43 BST 2004


Hermanski, John wrote:

>Interestingly, TortiseCVS, when you do an operation,  shows you exactly how it invokes cvsnt. You try the same thing from a command line, and it fails with "unable to connect". 
>
You probably need to set these environment variables (possibly in 
addition to CVSROOT), which TortoiseCVS also sets:

    PLINK_PROTOCOL=ssh
    CVS_EXT="c:\program files\tortoisecvs\tortoiseplink" -l "%u" "%h"

-Torsten



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