RE: passing the password in command line

[Arthur Barrett]

>tried passing the password in the command line like this and it 
>is not working

cvs -d :pserver:JOHN:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gehcbi login

I *think* that syntax is specific to CVSNT (free/GPL, runs on
Linux/Windows/Mac/Unix).

Same as:
cvs -d :pserver;pass=WELCOME;user=JOHN:@openge.ge.com:/cvsroot/gehcbi
login


As others have pointed out this is rather insecure.  A better
alternative is to use ssh, sserver or sspi to authenticate using ssh
keys, a client certificate or your windows active directory login.

If this is indeed a CVSNT questions please send it to the CVSNT the
newsgroup:
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
or
news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt

Regards,


Arthur