Re: Writing shell scripts that use CVS / Automatic checkout

[Martin Roehrig]

Hi Mikael,

Mikael Grave schrieb:

> How does GUI built on top of CVS (like wincvs) do their "login"?

I don't know how WinCVS does it exactly, but certainly it uses the pserver
protocol as described in the cvsclient docu:
The client connects to the cvs pserver port (defaults to 2401) and sends
    BEGIN AUTH REQUEST <LF>
    <cvs root> <LF>
    <username> <LF>
    <password, trivially encoded> <LF>
    END AUTH REQUEST <LF>
So the protocol itself does not require user interaction, it's the client
implementation that does (or does not).

Best regards
Martin