[ajug-members] Ant and CVS

[Roy Wells]

I was afraid that was probably the answer.  Thanks for the feed back. 


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:57:50 -0500, Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:36:40PM -0500, Roy Wells wrote:
> > A question for the ANT gurus out there.  Is there a way to tell the
> > ANT cvs task to load an ssh private key from  a non standard location.
> 
> There's nothing ant can do about it; the ant cvs task essentially acts
> as a proxy to a cvs executable, and cvs invokes ssh as if it were rsh.
> There's no way that I know of to pass options to the ssh process, other
> than through ~/.ssh/config.
> 
> >  I want anyone to be able to log into the build box and kick off a
> > build, but if you don't log in as the build account it can't find the
> > ssh key because it's looking in the default ~/.ssh for the key.  I'd
> > like to put the key for the build account in the directory with the
> > build script.  I don't see anything in the ant cvs task docs that
> > explains how to do this though.
> 
> You would have to configure ssh to do this, not ant.  You could edit the
> ~/.ssh/config file for all the users you want to give access to, and
> change the IdentityFile to point to the key in the build directory, but
> it would be much easier to just copy the key to everyone's ~/.ssh
> directory.  A more secure option would be to have everyone generate
> their own key, then append the public keys to the authorized_keys file
> on the cvs server.
> 
> HTH,
> Jason
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