CVS problems on 64-bit cygwin

[Warren Young]

On Jan 29, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29/01/2016 05:11, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>> Under 64-bit cygwin, this doesn't work; I never get a password prompt.
> 
> try with
> CVS_RSH="ssh"; export CVS_RSH

Good call.  I set CVS_RSH in my .bash_profile so long ago I forgot about it.

This probably explains why the OP sees the problem change when moving from Cygwin 32 to Cygwin 64: he probably doesn’t use the same shell startup scripts in both cases.
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