[Techtalk] CVS and SSH ports

[Michelle Murrain]

Hi all,

Seems like I'm posting a lot all of a sudden. New question. Our  
sysadmin changed the SSH port, because we were getting lots of brute  
force attacks. I'm having a hell of a time accessing my CVS  
repository because of this.

I'm using the CVSROOT = :ext:mpm at foo.bar.com:/var/lib/cvsroot

So, first, being stupid, I tried to alter the CVS_RSH variable in  
my .bashrc file, to read ssh -p xxxx. That didn't work.
Then, I tried an alias - alias ssh='ssh -p xxxx'
That didn't work.

Then I googled, and found a thing about adding an alias to ~/.ssh/ 
config:

Host hostname
HostKeyAlias foo.bar.com
Hostname foo.bar.com
Port xxxx

And that didn't work either - ssh still tried to connect on port 22.

Ideas? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Michelle

Michelle Murrain
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