On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 12:40, David Blevins wrote:

> - Get samba configured (never done that)

SWAT is your friend.

> - Move my CVS repositories from the old Win2k machine to Linux (where they
> should be!)
> - Get the cvs pserver configured (did that once a year ago, don't rember how
> though)

If you don't need anonymous access skip the pserver. Set up your
respository then tunnel cvs over ssh like so

in your .bashrc do
export CVSROOT=":ext:username at your.cvs.host:/cvs"
export CVS_RSH="ssh"

adjust that path in CVSROOT to match your needs. Then when you run 
cvs co MODULE on the local machine, you'll be prompted for your shell
account password. Be really slick and set up your ssh keys, ssh-agent,
and use ssh-askpass from your .xsession like so:
1.) Use ssh-keygen command line util to create your key.
2.) copy $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub from your workstation to
$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server with the cvs tree (or any other
machine you want to ssh to
3.) put the following in your .xsession

#!/bin/sh
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add </dev/null
# rest of .xsession stuff here i.e. starting window manager

and restart X, You'll be prompted for your ssh passphrase. and then if
everything worked you'll be able to ssh to the machine you stored your
public ssh-key on without manually typing your passphrase / password
(ssh-agent exchanges it with sshd on the other end)

This is nearly a necessity when tunneling cvs over ssh, especially if
you "cvs add" alot :-)

> 
> And, of course, I've already wasted half my day tinkering with themes and
> window managers.  (As the Tick, or your favorite super hero in peril)
> Must...focus..day...slipping..away....

See! It's impossible to get real work done! Then that damnable Loki came
along and gave quake3 and other kick ass games like that on linux. It's
horrible I tell you! So much stuff to mess with! 

 
> A VPN sounds like fun, then I can give my friends accounts on my machine.
> Why?  Because I can ;)

Well, let's see if you feel that way after fighting with FreeS/WAN :-)


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