problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Phillip Lord]

We seem to be having terrible trouble getting VC (and pcl-cvs) working
on NTEmacs. It's running cygwin as its shell, and CVS as the
versioning backed. An added complexity is that repository access is
via ssh. 

This works from an internal shell within emacs, although it prompts
for a password (I presume emacs can cope with this? I seem to remember
on redhat, I get a gnome window popping up from ssh, which isn't going
to happen on windows). 

In almost all cases VC, or PCL-CVS seem just to hang. 

Has anyone got any experiences with this? Have you got VC/cvs/ssh
working under NTEmacs?


Cheers

Phil

Re: problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> This works from an internal shell within emacs, although it prompts
> for a password (I presume emacs can cope with this? I seem to remember
> on redhat, I get a gnome window popping up from ssh, which isn't going
> to happen on windows).

I think you're presuming wrong: make sure that ssh does not
prompt for a password.


        Stefan

Re: problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:

>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
  >> This works from an internal shell within emacs, although it
  >> prompts for a password (I presume emacs can cope with this? I
  >> seem to remember on redhat, I get a gnome window popping up from
  >> ssh, which isn't going to happen on windows).

  Stefan> I think you're presuming wrong: make sure that ssh does not
  Stefan> prompt for a password.


Ah, okay. 

I shall investigate this then. Hopefully this is the
difficulty. Thanks!

Cheers

Phil

Re: problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Thomas Haselberger]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> .....
> In almost all cases VC, or PCL-CVS seem just to hang. 
> 
> Has anyone got any experiences with this? Have you got VC/cvs/ssh
> working under NTEmacs?

yes. I'm using keychain, which is part of the cygwin packages, 
to start and keep an ssh agent which prevents from password querying.

when you can commit from the cygwin shell without password entry, 
emacs vc should work, too.

regards,
        tom 

Re: problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Haselberger <thomas.haselberger@ucpmorgen.com> writes:

  Thomas> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

  >> .....  In almost all cases VC, or PCL-CVS seem just to hang.
  >>
  >> Has anyone got any experiences with this? Have you got VC/cvs/ssh
  >> working under NTEmacs?

  Thomas> yes. I'm using keychain, which is part of the cygwin
  Thomas> packages, to start and keep an ssh agent which prevents from
  Thomas> password querying.

  Thomas> when you can commit from the cygwin shell without password
  Thomas> entry, emacs vc should work, too.


I'd not heard to keychain before. It looks nice. Even better is a
series of articles about how it and ssh-agent works. This security
stuff makes my head go around in circles, and I've never managed to
get the ssh-agent stuff working. Now maybe I'll be able to. 

Thanks for the help. 

Cheers

Phil

Re: problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Thomas Haselberger]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> I'd not heard to keychain before. It looks nice. Even better is a
> series of articles about how it and ssh-agent works. This security
> stuff makes my head go around in circles, and I've never managed to
> get the ssh-agent stuff working. Now maybe I'll be able to. 

the author of keychain has written a series of articles, take a look at
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc3/

regards,
        tom

Re: problems with versioning on windows, with ntemacs, cvs, and ssh

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Haselberger <thomas.haselberger@ucpmorgen.com> writes:

  Thomas> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

  >> I'd not heard to keychain before. It looks nice. Even better is a
  >> series of articles about how it and ssh-agent works. This
  >> security stuff makes my head go around in circles, and I've never
  >> managed to get the ssh-agent stuff working. Now maybe I'll be
  >> able to.

  Thomas> the author of keychain has written a series of articles,
  Thomas> take a look at
  Thomas> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
  Thomas> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc2/
  Thomas> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc3/

Yeah, those were the ones I was referring to in my post....

Cheers

Phil