Passwordless logins, .shosts for Windows CVS clients with Cygwin

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/22/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:33:52 -0500

So, I've got an issue. I'm helping a buddy with a CVS server setup that he's
got a dozenn or so Windows users for. They've been using the built-in
Windows "rsh" client to avoid managing a CVS login system, which means using
.rhosts and running rshd on the CVS server. This makes me *extremely*
twitchy to even think about.

At my suggestion, he's been encouraging users to switch to using
"CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh" in CygWin windows. Which is fine, but getting them to
use "ssh-agent" to store an SSH key is something they don't like to do: they
want to open a CygWin window or command window and just have it Work(tm).

So I'm looking at setting up .shosts, but am having some grief. Does anyone
have a working "sshd_config" for OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 that allows .shosts use?

Also, has anyone gotten .shosts working for Putty/Windows/CVS users, since
there are a few who don't want to use CygWin?

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