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RE: setup a cvs gateway to other cvs servers
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Jonathan Chen \(jonachen\) |
Subject: |
RE: setup a cvs gateway to other cvs servers |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:53:55 -0700 |
If possible not allowed to log into the gateway. I would like an idea
that makes the Gateway server act as redirector to the other cvs
servers.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Wade Needham [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:37 AM
> To: Jonathan Chen (jonachen)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: setup a cvs gateway to other cvs servers
>
> Are you allowing users to login to the gateway box? If so,
> then they login to the gateway box using ssh, and have it
> configured to establish a tunnel to the CVS server in
> question. To do this, they might have an entry like this in
> their ssh config file:
>
> Host cvs-gateway
> HostName gateway.foo.com
> HostKeyAlias cvs-gateway
> User myusername
> LocalForward 2401 cvs-srvr1.foo.com:2401
>
> Then, they would do something like this for their CVSROOT variable:
>
> CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/the/cvsroot
>
> I use such a setup every day as I telecommute.
>
> - Doug
>
> Quoting Jonathan Chen (jonachen) (address@hidden):
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am wondering if it is possible to setup a secure(via ssh or secure
> > method) cvs gateway that would take you to all other cvs
> repositories.
> > Here is what I want to accomplish....
> >
> > OLD WAY:
> >
> > Linux Farm of 20 servers going to 15 CVS repositories requiring
> > opening up the firewall to access the 15 CVS servers.
> >
> >
> > NEW WAY:
> >
> > Instead of going opening up 15 connections to access the 15 CVS
> > servers, I would like to have ONLY 1 server acting as the
> gateway to
> > all 15 CVS servers that requires 1 connection for CVS downloads.
> >
> > So if User A wants CVS Alpha, he would access the CVS
> GATEWAY to reach
> > CVS Alpha. If User B wants CVS Beta, he would only need
> to connect to
> > CVS Gateway to reach CVS Beta. So on...
> >
> > I do not know a whole lot about CVS, but would like to
> setup something
> > similar to Oracle Oraname.ora dealing with different databases to
> > retrieve and upload information for a client to use.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas how I can accomplish this task?
>
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>
>
> --
> Douglas Wade Needham - KA8ZRT UN*X Consultant & UW/BSD
> kernel programmer
> Email: cinnion @ ka8zrt . com http://cinnion.ka8zrt.com
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> should my employer, or anybody else for that matter!
>