Ant checkout CVS using SSH

[Scott Presley]

I have my source tree in a CVS repository that uses SSH instead of the pserver. I'm creating an ant script to perform a nightly build. I want to checkout the source from CVS, compile it, build the jars, and depoly it to the server. I've completed writing the script, but when the CVS target is executed it asks for my password to login to the cvs server.

I've lookked through the ant forum here and tried to do some googling to find an answer but really didn't find much. Is it possible to automate a build that checks source out of CVS with SSH? If not is there another build tool that might work?

Thanks in advance,
Scott

[Lewin Chan]

SSH can be configured to use certificates for authentication against a server (rather than a password).

If you were to create a ssh certificate that doesn't have a passphrase (kinda bad), and you are using CVS_RSH=ssh then you should be able to silently checkout.

There have been a couple of posts in the "Linux" forum about how to configure ssh with certificates I think, either that or use google

[Aruneesh Salhotra]

Yes, you should create a public/private combination, with no passphrase.
That works.