[cvsnt] Re: Suppress blank login warning

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Aug 11 12:47:01 BST 2004


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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:24:29 -0700, Glen Starrett <grstarrett at cox.net>
wrote:

>Tony -- Is there a reason that -q and -Q don't suppress the "cvs 
>checkout: Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password" 
>message when using an anonymous login?  The cvshome.org CVS doesn't 
>complain at all with a blank password.

The message is taken verbatim from the cvshome.org version, so it
should do...

Things like -q don't get passed down to the protocol DLLs so they
always behave identically.

>The reason I ask is because I'm writing a script for use with CRON 
>that'll complain on every execution unless I manually login to the URL 
>beforehand or add a .cvs/cvspass entry.  If that is necessary, does *nix 

You can just use a blank password entry in the cvsroot:

:pserver:cvs:@cvs.cvsnt.org:/usr/local/cvs

Tony




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