[PLUG] CVS Server Question

[Larry Brigman]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:56:17 -0800, Jason Van Cleve <jason at vancleve.com> wrote:
> Quoth Steve Bonds, on Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:56:05 -0800:
> 
> > > If you use ssh keys to authenticate, you will never need to enter a
> > > password when running cvs commands.
> 
> Interesting.  Two things wonder me:
> 
> > 1) Set up ssh authorized_keys so you don't need a password to log in
> 
> According to the (very poorly edited) instructions at caltech.edu, I
> must "generate a public/private key pair, and copy the public part into
> the appropiate place on the server side".  So the no-password trick will
> require some server changes, correct, even if I'm already using :ext:?
> 
> > 2) Set CVSROOT=user at host:/path/to/cvsroot
> 
> I use several different CVS servers on a regular basis, so I would not
> want to set this to any default.  Maybe that step is unnecessary?

If you provide the root on the command line to other servers cvs keeps track of
the login info in .cvspass.
So once you checkout a project you don't have to specify all the
parameters again
provided you are in the project directory or don't wipe out .cvspass.