Re: Shell script failed to read in .cvspass file

[Derek Robert Price]

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Sherwin, Ziying (NIH/NLM) wrote:

>password set on CVS server for anonymous users. In our script, we set
>CVSROOT to use pserver, set CVS_PASSFILE to read a .cvspass file from
>previous logins and then use:
>
>    cvs status <filename>
>
>To check for updates.
>
>However, even with the presence of the cvs password file, we are prompted
>for password every single time, and, worst of all, the first time
entering


I think you must be reading the documentation for some other CVS
distribution.  Neither CVS_PASSFILE nor CVS_PASSWORD works or is
documented to work with this one.

You have two options.  As of recent versions of CVS, the following
CVSROOT will work:

    :pserver:<user>:<password>@<hostname>[:<port>]/path//to/repository

The other is to set the $HOME environment variable for your script.
This version of CVS always looks to $HOME/.cvspass for passwords.  Be
aware that setting $HOME could also cause CVS to look for some other
files in $HOME as well, including .cvswrappers & .cvsrc.

Cheers,

Derek

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