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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Brian Henning wrote:
> Hello-
> I have a pserver on my BSD machine that i would like to access it from the
> windows 2000 machine witha a command line cvs program.
> when i try running:
> 
>>cvs login
> 
> could not open %USERPROFILE%\.cvspass for reading
> could not open %USERPROFILE%\.cvspass for writing
> 
> my setup includes:
> created the empty file: %USERPROFILE%\.cvspass
> set CVSROOT=:pserver:henninb@<bsd ip address>:/home/cvsroot
> 
> 
> any suggestions? anyone else ever have problems with access to cvs from windows?
> thanks,

Doesn't sound like a FreeBSD issue.  Sounds like the command-line client having
trouble.  Which command-line CVS program is it?  Did you check the permissions
on %USERPROFILE%\.cvspass to ensure that it's writable by the user who's running
cvs?

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Bill Moran
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