Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE READ: CVSup access to freefall.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199902121704.JAA58201@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990211191905.jdp@polstra.com>
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Many thanks to all you early adopters who have sent me your CVSup
authentication info already!
I want to clarify a couple of things about setting it up:
1. When you run "cvpasswd", it won't automatically create the file
"~/.cvsup/auth". You must create that file yourself, and use an
editor to add the line that cvpasswd told you to add. Sorry, I
realize that's not very user-friendly. I was on a deadline to beat
the ports freeze, and didn't have enough time to make it more clever
than that.
2. CVSup looks for the "~/.cvsup" subdirectory in the home directory
of the user who is running the cvsup program. So if you run it as
root from a cron job, the auth file must be named "~root/.cvsup/auth".
Also, it should be readable only by root in that case.
To be more precise about #2: cvsup does a getenv("HOME"), and uses
that as the home directory where it expects to find the ".cvsup"
subdirectory.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
-- H. L. Mencken
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