CVS Access Instructions

From DaVinci

These are the general CVS authentication instructions provided by Lutz. SEI use ssh public key authentication and Lutz sent out everyone's private key in an email around the 11/17/2005 timeframe.

Do the following:

• Save your personal the personal id_dsa file onto the harddrive.
• In eclipse go to Window -> Preferences; Team -> CVS -> SSH2 Connection method.
• In the Key Management tab click 'Load existing key...'
• Select the file and save the private key

Then connect to the repository

• open the CVS Repository Exploring perspective
• add a new CVS repository using the following data

 host: la.sei.cmu.edu
 Repository path: /home/cvs/osate
 User: <Your personal ID as provided by Lutz>
 Password: <leave this empty>
 Connection type: extssh
 Use port: 304

That should give you full access to the repository. Sometimes eclipse will ask for a password when connecting to the repository for the first time. In that case cancel, restart eclipse, and try again. Repeat until it no longer asks for a password.

In order to access the repository, do the following

• In the cvs perspective repository view, right click on branches, refresh branches, select all projects, finish, search deeply. This will take a while.
• Select all projects in the DaVinci branch, right click, check out, done.