[lug] mixing linux/win cvs/ssh

[Glenn Murray]

I know of no way to use ssh without placing keys, perhaps someone else
can help.

I have seen the "stdin: is not a tty" message a lot, too, but I have
no idea what it means.

Thanks for the compliment though, perhaps I'll get motivated to update
the page.

Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, D. Stimits wrote:

> In general, I do get a message during ssh cvs checkouts:
> stdin: is not a tty
> 
> This does not appear to be a problem. At least not on command line. I am
> able to check out files over cvs this way from either win or linux
> (server is linux). What fails are all of the gui interfaces (win only).
> I'm thinking maybe the "stdin: is not a tty" is interfering. For
> example, scp will fail if some startup file in the home directory echoes
> something like "welcome".
> 
> In general, the web page below is quite helpful. But it doesn't tell me
> one thing I need to know. It seems to rely on placing keys and not using
> passwords. Is it possible that the password interactive is not possible
> with ssh cvs on the win gui? I do get the password prompt, but then it
> fails. Although I don't want a key pair that requires an rsa password
> each time, I *do* want it to prompt for my login pass on the remote
> machine. I'm thinking the gui's are too limited to do this, and even
> though it prompts for pass, it is causing failure.
> 
> Also, my login shell is tcsh, so I'd have to find some equivalent to
> that case below if it is mandatory to work around non-interactive
> logins. Before I can do more testing though, I'll have to uninstall some
> of the tcl stuff I have now, it lacks tk, and probably isn't good to mix
> versions.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>