Well, one thing you can do with the latest CVS is set up an anonymous,
read-only repository user with an empty password (as described in the
documentation) and issue your checkout as that user. As long as both
client and server are recent (1.8 or higher), you will not be prompted
for a password at any point.
To get the latest CVS, do
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/cvsroot login
password "guest"
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/cvsroot co ccvs
-K
Mikael Grave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am currently writing a small Shell script that will log into my CVS
> respository and will issue a checkout. This script is intended to be
> called every 10mn by a crontab.
>
> Since "cvs login" does not have a command line option to pass the
> password, I was wondering if there is a simple trick to run "cvs login"
> automatically? I have tried things like:
>
> echo "xxxxx" | cvs login
>
> But it does not work (the password is not taken from the buffered stdin
> I guess).
>
> My original purpose was to perform an automatic checkout (in a test bed)
> every time someone was doing a commit. Doing this with "commitinfo" did
> not seem possible since "cvs commit" recursively commit all modified
> files, if 100 files are commited at once, I don't want commitinfo to
> launch 100 checkouts (maybe should I simply run one "update" per
> "committed" file?). So I decided to go for a crontab (not as good, user
> may have to wait 10mn to see their changes published in the test bed).
>
> Any help or trick are welcome. I guess my problem is quite common. Hope
> my questions are not too stupid :)
>
> Cordially,
>
> Mikael
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