Re: Password authentication on pserver

[Matthew . Riechers]

> ----- 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.

Purushotham Komaravolu wrote:
> 
> Its a windows based server. Its not storing the passwords.

You just said "I am using cvs (pserver) on redhat linux". That is the
server side. I'll assume you meant that you are running a windows-based
client.

In any case, the client stores the passwords, not the server. Based on
your description above, it sounds like you are doing operations on the
client-side. Regardless of client platform, there should be a
$HOME/.cvspass file that is used as described above.

-Matt