On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> I use CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs.
> Is it possible to specify the password on the command line with cvs login (it
> isn't secret anyhow)?
> How exactly do i set up password-less authentication over SSH ? I wont be able
> to create an SSH key and copy it over to the server??

Try CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs

Replace "password" with the password, of course.

-- Josh

> 
> - Heinrich
> 
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