Re: emacs cvs over ssh question

["M. Serkan Apaydin" <apaydin@cs.stanford.edu>]

Hi,

> *From*: 	David B
> *Subject*: 	Re: emacs cvs over ssh question
> *Date*: 	08 Dec 2003 13:08:22 +0100
> *User-agent*: 	Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2
>
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>Andrew Taylor <ataylor@bogus.example.com <http://mail.gnu.org/spam.html>> writes:
>>/ /
>>/ This doesn't address your specific problem, but I typically use RSA/
>>/ key authentication by adding my public key to the list of authorized/
>>/ keys on the CVS server./
>
>Actually that was the solution- many thanks!
>
>David
>
>  
>

  Actually, I am also trying
to do the same. I have a remote repository, behind a firewall, and I can
connect it to it
using command line cvs, e.g. by saying:
setenv CVSROOT :ext:apaydin@robo:~/cvs_repository

but then when I try to use cvs within emacs, I get the error:
/usr/bin/ssh-askpass could not be found.

ssh-askpass is actually in /usr/local/bin,
and I could not find how to tell emacs where to look
for ssh-askpass. Simple add-path to .emacs in the form of:

(setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/bin/" load-path))
did not help.

Trying the solution suggested by Andrew Taylor requires setting the
CVSROOT as :pserver:apaydin@robo:~/cvs_repository
however then cvs login does not work, as connection is rejected by robo
since it is a firewall.

I was wondering you know of any solution for this case.

Thanks,

serkan