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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:32:54 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question on CVS Branches
Message-ID:  <3F4F8036.7030207@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F4F1F7E.6020609@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
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> 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




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