Re: [gnome-love] dispensing with CVS password?

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 3/10/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:
> --- Ross Golder <ross golder org> wrote:
>
> > เมื่อ ศ. 2006-03-10 เวลา 07:51
> > +0000, Joachim Noreiko เขียนว่า:
> > > Is there a way to avoid having to type my CVS
> > password
> > > for operations that don't affect the server, eg
> > diffs,
> > > checkouts, updates?
> >
> > Presumably you mean your SSH passphrase (CVS doesn't
> > have passwords,
> > AFAIR). If so, you probably want to try 'ssh-agent'
> > (man ssh-agent).
>
> I was wondering whether CVS could be configured to use
> anonymous login for operations that involve no upload
> to the server.

Only by modifying the location where CVS looks for the repository,
i.e. by modifying the CVS/Root file in the current directory plus the
file of the same name in any subdirectories.  And then when you want
to do a commit/add/remove operation, you'd have to change all the
files back.  There is a script, I think in the jhbuild/tools section
if you're interested, but it's probably a bad choice.  ssh-agent and
ssh-add, as suggested by Ross, are much better for what you want.