Setting up secure access to a cvs repository from Windows works great using these two awesome tools:
Putty
TortoiseCVS
The docs explain things pretty well. The only part that can snag is getting them working together through a proxy, which required replacement of Tortoise CVS’s no-terminal ssh connection utility (tortoiseplink.exe) with Putty’s version (plink.exe). Here are the steps:
Install putty and tortoise cvs
Set up your ssh keys, and configure pageant to serve up your private key, according to the docs (unless you’re willing to enter your linux user password a LOT)
Set up a putty session for plink as follows:
Connection: add your user to Auto-login username
Connection:Proxy set up your proxy
Connection:SSH check “don’t allocate a terminal” and “don’t run a command”
Name and save the session [e.g. yourplinksession]
Set up a plink.bat batch file: [plink.exe -load yourplinksession %1 %2 %3 %4]
Tortoise CVS preferences:Tools:SSH application set to plink.bat
Tortoise CVS preferences:Tools:SSH parameters set to [-l “%u” ]
Fire it up!
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