Re: SSH and CVS

From: Pierre Asselin (pa_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:08:08 -0400

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:

> "Paul McKinney" <paulmckinney@kestersoftware.com> wrote in message
>> http://www.kestersoftware.com/content/view/29/2/

> Thank you, I've seen that one. If you notice, it's got a lot of steps that
> are fairly mystical to non-UNIX people, like "copy your public key file over
> to the server and put a copy of it in your .ssh/authorized_keys file".

I have them email it to me. I take care of creating their user
account on the Linux box and stuffing their public key where it needs
to go.

> Walking the Windows users through these steps is like pulling teeth from a
> duck. It's a lot of effort, and frustrating to all involved.

I let them go over my checklist while I watch over their shoulder. Of
course that won't scale too well but I haven't reached that stage yet.
When I do I'll just have to edit the checklist to tip-top shape...

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