[cvsnt] Re: cvsgui on Solaris

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Feb 7 23:37:48 GMT 2005


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Kohn, Robert M. wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am building a GUI application on Solaris using cvsnt and
> the cvsgui source code.  Everything goes fine until the following
> shows up in my shell window:
> 
>   username at host's password:

Sounds like an ssh prompt.

> This prompt does not come from either stderr or stdout;
> where is it coming from?
> How can my GUI application determine when cvs wants a password
> so that I can respond properly?
> And how do I respond?  I.e., which File Descriptor do I write
> to with the password?

AFAIK you can't with ssh - you have to use RSA keys.  Unfortunately I 
never got the :ssh: putty DLL to compile under Unix.

Have you tried asking the gcvs people how they do it? I'm sure they've 
been through all these problems already...

Tony



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