cvs -d:ext:user_name@hostname:/repository co module
It was taking a long time and tried with
Trying krb4 rsh...
And connection was timing out.
This was strange, Fedora was trying with login with RSH instead of SSH. I remember it used work without doing any modifications, later remembered it was RHEL3 and not FC4.
With FC4, you will have to set the CVS_RSH=ssh explicity
In the .bash_profile
CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVS_RSH
Now it should work. Thanks to this post.
