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Tony, Torsten: Thanks for the info. I will take a look at using the alternative methods mentioned. -Mark "Torsten Martinsen" <torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote in message news:mailman.815.1048794722.22290.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... > Tony Hoyle wrote: > > >On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:11:07 -0000, "Mark Griffiths" <mark at chive.com> wrote: > > > > > >>It appears the cvs.exe is not reading the password from stdin. Can anybody > >>confirm this behaviour change from build 65? Any ideas how we can login > >>non-interactively? I will try to narrow down exactly which version things > >>stopped working, but I'm not getting great transfer rates today. > >> > >Looking at the logs shows nothing special around that time - the getpass > >routine was written in early 2000, and only modified for build 73 when plink > >integration was added. Normally, though, a frontend will implement login via > >the cvsgui protocol - you'll receive a request for CVS_GETPASS and you can > >open up a dialog box, request the password, then reply with it. > > > FWIW, TortoiseCVS has (until now) always written the password to stdin. > The primary reason for this being that it works with any client that > people care to use, not just CVSNT. > > Users reported that logging in did no longer work, so TortoiseCVS has > now been rewritten to use PostMessage() instead. > > -Torsten