cvs behind a firewall

[christopher j bottaro <cjb cs utexas edu>]

ok,
jeez, i've been posting a lot recently...=)  i'm trying to access my cvs 
repository via ssh.  the computer running ssh is listening on a non standard 
port (i.e. not port 22).

this is what i tried:
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
export CVSROOT=":ext:me myhome:/path/to/cvsroot"

well it failed because cvs is trying to connect via ssh on port 22.  so i 
changed my /etc/ssh_config file to have a line the following line:
port = <my ssh port>

now when ssh is invoked, it uses <my ssh port> as its default port.  whoot, 
now cvs works.

my question is this.  i'm going to be using cvs via ssh on a computer where i 
don't have root privs (i.e. i won't be able to change /etc/ssh/ssh_config).  
how can i get cvs to invoke ssh trying to use a specified port without 
editing the ssh_config file?

thanks,
christopher