Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:41:24 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: rebehn@antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on CVS Branches Message-ID: <20030829204124.GA638@webserver> In-Reply-To: <1062186396.3f4fad9c9d920@www.ant.uni-bremen.de> 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> <1062186396.3f4fad9c9d920@www.ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, rebehn@antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de wrote: > 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?? Try CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs:password@anoncvs.de.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs Replace "password" with the password, of course. -- Josh > > - Heinrich > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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