[cvsnt] Securing pserver on CVSNT: tunneling with ssh

[Tony Hoyle]

David Somers wrote:
> Damien Moore wrote:
> 
>>is there a user friendly explanation of what the sserver protocol actually
>>is anywhere?
> 
> 
> More-or-less, its pserver over a ssl channel.
> 
> (The initial connection line is sent indicating that sserver is required
> (opposed to plain pserver or something else ), then some ssl handshaking
> occurs, and then the pserver protocol continues, but now over ssl.
> 

I actually wonder if a local proxy would be useful - eg. you connect to 
localhost:2401 via pserver and it does the relevant handshake and 
connects in a secure manner.  It's basically what extnt does I guess, 
but people do seem to have problems configuring that.

Tony