[gnugo-devel] Fwd: Status of savannah.{gnu,nongnu}.org

[Arend Bayer]

Savannah is now apparently working again. They seem to have made many changes, 
and one of them is relevant for anonymous CVS access (i.e. for everyone who is 
using the read-only access to CVS):

Bradley M. Kuhn <address@hidden> schrieb am 23.12.03 06:07:01:

(...)
>    (2) Anonymous CVS access will continue, but pserver access has been
>        discontinued.  We realize that many have become accustomed to this
>        form of anonymous access, but we found many security problems in
>        pserver and we must avoid it.  Anonymous access can now occur via
>        SSHv2.  To do so, use the following CVSROOT:
> 
>               :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/PROJECT
>        or
>               :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/PROJECT
> 
>        So, for example, to get an anonymous checkout of the GNU Emacs
>        sources, you would run the following on the bash command line:
> 
>               export CVS_RSH="ssh"
>               cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
> 
>        The first time you do this, you will be prompted by SSH to
>        authenticate the server's key fingerprint.  See (3) below for
>        details.
> 
>        Note that since only SSHv2 is accepted, you must be sure that your
>        ~/.ssh/config does indicate use of "Protocol 1" with
>        savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org.

(I guess he means "Protocol 2".)

Nice holidays to everyone
Arend