Re: Password authentication on pserver

[Purushotham Komaravolu]

Its a windows based server. Its not storing the passwords.
Puru
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Jones" <address@hidden>
To: "Purushotham Komaravolu" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Password authentication on pserver


> Purushotham Komaravolu writes:
> >
> >          I am using cvs (pserver) on redhat linux. I  have a few scripts
> > which need to be executed every night. For that I need to pass the cvs
> > password in that script. Can somebody tell me how to pass the password
> > as part of the script.
>
> You shouldn't need to.  You only need to do "cvs login" once for a
> particular repository -- CVS remembers the login information (in your
> ~/.cvspass file) and uses for all subsequent access to that repository.
> So just login once interactively, then your scripts won't need to.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Everybody's a slave to routine. -- Calvin
>