Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: bug in Anon CVS how to

[Olivier Berger]

"Jaime E. Villate" <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is that you used a double @ instead of a single one. I don't see
> any @@ in the CVS Introduction page; was it a typo when you did copy and
> paste?
> 

Oops... I answered too quickly to notice that Jaime had already
answered ;) Sorry pal.

> >    I never had a .cvspass file on any account on any computer (with
> >    several distros, as RedHat, Debian and Mandrake). 
> 
> CVS is supposed to create the .cvspass file for you; 

Only when you issue a "cvs login" I think (which is only used with
pserver, and not with CVS_RSH, that we use to use for non-anonymous,
the reason why we forgot about that ;)

> but I have also seen an
> error message complaining about a non-existing .cvspass in some machines. I
> should have investigated the issue further and discuss it with the CVS
> maintainers, but not having much time to spend on it I've always solved it 
> with
> a simple "touch .cvspass" as I guess lots of users have done.
> 

You're supposed to follow the sequence

 cvs login
   => password stored in the .cvspass

...a nd some time later :

 cvs checkout or whatever else
   => password retrieved from the .cvspass

If you try to issue a checkout without having first logged in, that's
why it complains...

Although we'ree using CVS in pserver for anonymous access, which tends
to make login useless, pserver cannot know that first, so here comes
the problems.

You may check that the howto reminds the users to login to avoid such
complaints (or maybe suggest a patch to CVS so that it won't try to
check for passwords in .cvspass in pserver mode if no password gets it
to connect anyway ?)

Hope this helped.

Regards,

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