[TriLUG] Re: SSH & public key authorization on sourceforge (Tom Bryan)

[Tom Bryan]

On Friday 07 September 2001 02:24 am, you wrote:
> Thanks Tom,  You hit it on the nail.  

No problem.  Earlier this year, I helped three or four people on a local 
project (www.ecoaccess.org) get their SourceForge connections up and working. 
The SSH1 vs. SSH2 thing was a pretty common problem.

> Unfortunately because my goal is to integrate
> the latest copy of netbeans (which is awesome by the way) with
> sourceforge, 

What do you mean by that?

> I had to change Protocols 2,1 in /etc/ssh_config to
> Protocols 1.  I tried 1,2 but it didn't work...

Heh.  I just created a one-line shell script that does 
exec ssh -1 -C @

> Unfortunately Sourceforge's cvs servers don't allow you to setup DSA
> encryption.

I'm not up on security and everything that ssh offers, but I hope you don't 
mean that they don't permit key-based authentication.  That's certainly not 
true.  

> I did use the web interface.  It does (for anyone concerned) take up to
> 12 hours to propegate!

It's tough when you're eager to start doing something, but all serious 
SourceForge users have been hit by cron delays.  Heck, I even got bit by a 
delay among machines that were apparently mirrored to provide load balancing.

Happy hacking, 
---Tom