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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:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
>> I had to enter the password for the "cvs login"; the CVS checkout 
>> operation did not require a password.
> 
> How do you enter a password from within a cron job?

You don't/can't.  That's why you "cvs login" by hand, enter the password. 
Later, when you run "cvs co", it will use the saved password (in ~/.cvspass).

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-Chuck