From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 12 09:04:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07168 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07158; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA14025; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA58201; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902121704.JAA58201@vashon.polstra.com> To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE READ: CVSup access to freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Many thanks to all you early adopters who have sent me your CVSup authentication info already! I want to clarify a couple of things about setting it up: 1. When you run "cvpasswd", it won't automatically create the file "~/.cvsup/auth". You must create that file yourself, and use an editor to add the line that cvpasswd told you to add. Sorry, I realize that's not very user-friendly. I was on a deadline to beat the ports freeze, and didn't have enough time to make it more clever than that. 2. CVSup looks for the "~/.cvsup" subdirectory in the home directory of the user who is running the cvsup program. So if you run it as root from a cron job, the auth file must be named "~root/.cvsup/auth". Also, it should be readable only by root in that case. To be more precise about #2: cvsup does a getenv("HOME"), and uses that as the home directory where it expects to find the ".cvsup" subdirectory. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message