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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
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On 2002-04-17 15:11, Rich Morin wrote:
> When I followed the instructions on this page, I got a fatal error.
> I then tried creating an empty ~/.cvspass file, which seems to work:

How about this patch to mirrors/chapter.sgml?

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Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.209
diff -5 -u -r1.209 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml	17 Apr 2002 04:18:32 -0000	1.209
+++ chapter.sgml	21 Apr 2002 14:59:42 -0000
@@ -1092,10 +1092,20 @@
 	  provides the well-known password <quote>anoncvs</quote> with the
 	  <command>cvs login</command> command, and then uses the
 	  &man.cvs.1; command to access it like any local
 	  repository.</para>
 
+	<note>
+	  <para>The <command>cvs login</command> command, stores the passwords
+	    that are used for authenticating to the CVS server in a file
+	    called <filename>.cvspass</filename> in your
+	    <literal>HOME</literal> directory.  If this file doesn't exist,
+	    you might get an error when trying to use <command>cvs
+	    login</command> for the first time.  Just make an empty
+	    <filename>.cvspass</filename> file, and retry to login.</para>
+	</note>
+
 	<para>While it can also be said that the <link
 	  linkend="cvsup">CVSup</link> and <emphasis>anoncvs</emphasis>
 	  services both perform essentially the same function, there are
 	  various trade-offs which can influence the user's choice of
 	  synchronization methods.  In a nutshell,
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