--- Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?E=20B?= writes: > > > > 1. Can passwd be supplied using any mechanism > > other than ~/.cvspass > > As of CVS 1.11.1, you can specify the password in > the CVSROOT: > > :pserver:user:password@host/cvsroot > > but it's not recommended.
My current client is 1.10.5 and doesnt support this. Any idea if wincvs 1.2/1.3 has this 1.11.1 client? btw, why is it not recommended? The reason I am asking this is, the command cvs login expects password strictly from stdin (like the passwd command). Btw, how does Ant get away with this? > > > 2. Is the location of .cvspass flexible (it seems > > not, but am i correct?). > > No, it's not. > This is irrelavant now :) > > 3. lets say I am user X, and when I login, I have > > this new file ~X/.cvsfile. Now from the same shell > > I change username to Y in my CVSROOT, and do a > login. > > the same ~X/.cvsfile is getting modified. and not > > ~Y/.cvspass. I am struck :-( > > I presume you mean .cvspass, not .cvsfile. > > You're not struck, or even stuck. If you look at > your ~/.cvspass file, > you'll see that it contains *both* > usernames/passwords. Logging in to a > repository is not like logging in to a system -- all > it does is cause > CVS to remember the corresponding password (in > ~/.cvspass) so you don't > have to type it in every time you want to do > something. You typically > log in to a repository only once and never log out > -- I'm currently > logged in to 14(!) repositories. So, the fact that > all of the passwords > are going into the same file is irrelevant -- you > can still simulate > multiple users just fine. > Okay, thats a good news! The .cvspass file indeed has all the users and passords for different hosts. > -Larry Jones > > You're going to be pretty lonely in the nursing > home. -- Calvin > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs