Re: Writing shell scripts that use CVS / Automatic checkout

[Larry Jones]

Mikael Grave writes:
> 
> Since "cvs login" does not have a command line option to pass the
> password, I was wondering if there is a simple trick to run "cvs login"
> automatically? I have tried things like:

You don't need to login every time you run a cvs command, the username
and password are stored in ~/.cvspass so you only have to login once. 
All you need to do is to manually do the "cvs login" once as the user
the script will be running as.

-Larry Jones

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