[Savannah-hackers] [ 100261 ] anon CVS access denied ?

[nobody]

Support Request #100261, was updated on 2001-Dec-27 14:32
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Category: CVS
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: anon CVS access denied ?

By: liberty_or_death
Date: 2001-Dec-27 14:46

Message:
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just solved it myself:

~/.cvspass must exist (even an empty file does the trick)
...

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By: liberty_or_death
Date: 2001-Dec-27 14:32

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hi,

i seem to be unable to checkout anything (tried a few
projects) from anon cvs. when asked about the password
i just hit return. must be some stupid error, but i
don't get it...;-(

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address@hidden:~/Programming/private$ cvs
-d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/perl-fusion
login 
Logging in to
:pserver:address@hidden:2401/cvsroot/perl-fusion
CVS password: 
cvs login: failed to open /home/tok/.cvspass for
reading: No such file or directory
cvs [login aborted]: fatal error: exiting
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can you please help?

thanks, tok

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