Re: Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password

[Jim Hyslop]

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simmo wrote:
> One member of my team keeps getting this message:
> 
> Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password
> cvs.exe [tag aborted]: authorization failed: server denzel rejected
> access to d:/Engineering/CVS for user davidb
> 
> Has anyone any ideas what he could be doing to get into this state?
Exactly what the error message says: issue the 'cvs login' command and
specify a valid password.

> One thing that may be worth mentioning is that we are using netbeans
> and performing some of the updates and commits from there rather than
> the command line, but everyone in the team is doing this, so I can't
> really see that being the problem.

Not likely. The problem is in his $HOME/.cvspass file, which will (or
should) be used both by netbeans and the command-line client.

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Jim Hyslop
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