Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-16 Thread Larry Jones
Chris Palmer writes: Your password isn't saved there, nor is the access method. The access method is part of the root specification, so it most certainly *is* saved in CVS/Root. You can also specify your password as part of the root specification (although it's generally a bad idea to do

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Larry Jones wrote: When you check out a directory, CVS remembers the CVSROOT and uses it for all subsequent operations in that directory. (This makes life much simpler for those of us who use multiple repositories.) What you need to do is to edit that saved CVSROOT (in CVS/Root) to

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-15 Thread Chris Palmer
Your password isn't saved there, nor is the access method. it just tracks the server/directories. You might already have more info stored in your environment variables, if you tend to use just a single single repository all of the time. Obscurity isn't security, so if you choose to make sure

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-15 Thread Mike Ayers
Hmmm - I suspect my question was misunderstood, so I shall ask it differently. If I edit the file CVS/Root for a given working directory, are there any other dependencies to be aware of, or is this just like setting the CVSROOT env var, except with a higher priority?

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-15 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:13:32PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: If I edit the file CVS/Root for a given working directory, are there any other dependencies to be aware of, or is this just like setting the CVSROOT env var, except with a higher priority? Yes to the latter, therefore no to

WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-12 Thread Kennedy, Todd
Hello all WinCVS and cvs guru's out there. I would like to solicit your help in solving a strange problem one of my users is having. I have a user that has taken over a PC from another user and is using WinCVS 1.10 to get files from a Solaris Build cvs 1.10 server. The user attempts to login and

Re: WinCVS 1.10 problem Logging in

2002-07-12 Thread Larry Jones
Kennedy, Todd writes: I have a user that has taken over a PC from another user and is using WinCVS 1.10 to get files from a Solaris Build cvs 1.10 server. The user attempts to login and receives an exit code of 0 but when he tries to Update Files he gets a Not logged in error. So the user