Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:46:36 +0200 From: rebehn@antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on CVS Branches Message-ID: <1062186396.3f4fad9c9d920@www.ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <3F4F8036.7030207@mac.com> References: <3F4B4633.1010807@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030826045512.N503@njamn8or.no-ip.org> <3F4E0715.3040402@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030828141020.GC21213@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <3F4F1F7E.6020609@ant.uni-bremen.de> <3F4F8036.7030207@mac.com>
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Quoting Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>: > Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > [ ... ] > > 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 > > > I use CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs. Is it possible to specify the password on the command line with cvs login (it isn't secret anyhow)? How exactly do i set up password-less authentication over SSH ? I wont be able to create an SSH key and copy it over to the server?? - Heinrich ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
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