USA Anonymous CVS

[Lowell Gilbert]

Dan Lists <lists.dan at gmail.com> writes:

>>From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
>
> USA: anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs (For ssh, use ssh version
> 2 and no password is required.)
>
> SSH2 HostKey: 2048 53:1f:15:a3:72:5c:43:f6:44:0e:6a:e9:bb:f8:01:62
> /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
>
> Example A-2. Using SSH to Check Out the src/ Tree:
>
> % cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
> The authenticity of host 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org (216.87.78.137)' can't
> be established.
> DSA key fingerprint is 53:1f:15:a3:72:5c:43:f6:44:0e:6a:e9:bb:f8:01:62.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Warning: Permanently added 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org' (DSA) to the list of
> known hosts.
>
> However, when I acutally issue the command, I get a different DSA key,
> different IP, and it will not accept any password:
>
> # cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
> The authenticity of host 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org (96.47.72.116)' can't
> be established.
> DSA key fingerprint is 4e:bc:48:a0:e1:27:0a:62:c8:da:45:31:d4:ad:b2:00.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Warning: Permanently added 'anoncvs1.freebsd.org' (DSA) to the list of
> known hosts.
> Password:
> Password:
> Password:
> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
>
> Is the USA anonymous CVS server no longer operational?

It's just ssh that isn't working as documented; this may have changed
for security reasons.
The pserver method still works, so things aren't completely offline.
If ssh access is no longer supported, it should be removed from the
Handbook, but I can't be sure there isn't just a configuration change
needed.