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Re: can't login via pserver and therefore can't save ~/.cvspass file


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: can't login via pserver and therefore can't save ~/.cvspass file
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:38:40 -0400

Joe Kaiping wrote:

> Actually, I thought I would need to use both pserver and ssh.  ssh for my
> personal CVS usage, and pserver for when CVS is executed only as a reader
> from within a script.  (The script will be used to automatically update a
> web site with files contained in CVS)
>
> Can you tell me what is the best and/or most common way to call CVS from
> within a shell script so that the user running the script isn't required to
> type in a password?  Or is there a way one might be able feed CVS the
> password from within the script?

Set up an anonymous account with an empty password.  If recent versions of CVS
don't find an entry in ~/.cvspass, they'll try a login with an empty password:

    http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC31
    http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC36

Alternatively, if you can't change the password on the read-only account for
some reason, 'echo password |cvs login' should do the trick.  I usually avoid
that kind of thing for security reasons, but it would work.

Derek

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