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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>
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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

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