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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Question on CVS Branches
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Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
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> Thank you. Yet another question: I would like to update my source tree 
> automatically each night. However the cvs login requires a password to 
> be typed in. Is there any way to automate this? Strangely, the cvs man 
> page does not even mention the login command.

The documentation for CVS is not especially well-known for being inclusive.  Are 
you using CVS over SSH or in pserver mode?  The first case requires you to set 
up password-less SSH authentication via ssh-keygen, the latter uses the "cvs 
login" mechanism.

-- 
-Chuck