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Date:      Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:50:54 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question on CVS Branches
Message-ID:  <3F5CA55E.2070604@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F5C9C08.4050601@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
[ ... ]
>> I had to enter the password for the "cvs login"; the CVS checkout 
>> operation did not require a password.
> 
> How do you enter a password from within a cron job?

You don't/can't.  That's why you "cvs login" by hand, enter the password. 
Later, when you run "cvs co", it will use the saved password (in ~/.cvspass).

-- 
-Chuck




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