Hi Bernd,

On Thursday, 2011-03-03 17:18:21 +0100, Bernd Eilers wrote:

> If as a developer you are using a different password than before it
> would probably be hard to generate the CVS encrypted Version of the
> password nowadays

Actually not, the CVS password scrambling is a simple text encoding, see
http://www.rootr.net/man/info/cvsclient
"Password scrambling algorithm", and
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=457764

> because the new infrastructure does not provide a
> CVS server anymore. Thus we now also allow unencrypted passwords to
> be used for authentication for the EIS SOAP services. If you have
> changed your password you must configure the CVS_PASSWORD variable
> in your $HOME/.cwsrc

See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/.cwsrc

> file and can use it unencrypted there now. Be
> sure to not accidentally make that file public readable than.

Also not with a scrambled password..

  Eike

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