Access to the CVS repository of LON-CAPA is available by
The initial CVS commands would be:
export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME@source.lon-capa.org:/home/cvs cvs co loncapa
You will be prompted to enter your password each time you issue a cvs command.
A solution to this is to use
ssh-keygen -t dsato generate public and private keys in ~/.ssh/
For more information on using CVS, please visit http://www.cvshome.org/ or read loncom/build/readme.html after downloading the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.
Additionally, the IRC channel #loncapa on freenode.net often contains a few lon-capa developers willing to help out.