Re: Problems connecting to ssh cvs server using Putty on Win2k

From: Grégoire Weber (gregweb-NOSPAM@i-con.ch)
Date: 11/27/02 

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:09:39 +0100
From: Grégoire Weber <gregweb-NOSPAM@i-con.ch>

Sorry, the double post. I thought I lost the first message :-)

Grégoire Weber wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to connect to zope's cvs server. I am doing this
> with Putty 0.52.
>
> Testing the SSH tunnel (it's a tunnel, isn't it?) by hand
> doesn't work as expected.
>
> What I've done so far:
>
> 1. generated private/public SSH2 RSA key pair using
> puttygen
>
> 2. posted the public key to the CVS server. People
> at zope corp. said that they have received the key
> and that I should now be able to connect.
>
> 3. Pageant is running on my system with the key loaded.
>
> 4. When connecting to the server by:
>
> plink gregweb@cvs.zope.org echo "dummy text"
>
> I get a password prompt:
>
> gregweb@cvs.zope.org's password:
>
> This should not be as I and zope people understand.
>
> 5. Env. vars set (for wincvs as I understand):
>
> HOME=e:\user\greg\data\zope3-dev
> CVS_SSH=d:\program files\putty\plink.exe
>
> PATH has d:\program files\putty in there.
>
> I'm stuck, so help is apreciated. Thanks.
>
> Greg
>