cvs password

fernfrancis · 09-19-2010, 04:58 AM

hi
i need to checkout a project from cvs fort a particular user
i use the following command
cvs -d

server:francis:francis@cvs@10.200.2.23:/projects/aa_cesar co myproject

when i do it using the eclipse it works fine but when i do it command line it does not checkout
the reason is it takes cvs@10.200.2.23 unable to connect
that is wrong username pasword credentials are given

please help me with this issue

thankx

ricstirato · 09-19-2010, 02:28 PM

You probably have the wrong syntax for the path (-d parameter).

It should go like:

Code:

:pserver:username@hostname:/path/to/cvs_repository/

In your case something like

Code:

:pserver:francis@10.200.2.23:/projects/aa_cesar/

fernfrancis · 09-19-2010, 11:26 PM

hi
th syntax is right

my username is francis
and password is francis@cvs i have a special character in my password
so substituting the above values i get the same result

prayag_pjs · 09-19-2010, 11:32 PM

cvs -d : pserver:<user>@<host>:/path/to/cvs/repository

prayag_pjs · 09-19-2010, 11:34 PM

Hi this troulbshooting link will be usefull

http://www.thathost.com/wincvs-howto/cvsdoc/cvs_21.html

fernfrancis · 09-20-2010, 02:04 AM

hi i am able to checkout the code as a different user , some users have special characters in their passwords
link in my case
since i have @ in my password it treats text after @ as the username and tried to connect which is invalid

cvs -d server:francis:francis@cvs@10.200.2.23:/projects/aa_cesar co myproject

cvs -d server:username:password@10.200.2.23:/projects/aa_cesar co myproject

ricstirato · 09-20-2010, 12:17 PM

Ah... that was not quite clear in your first post.

Do a cvs login first:

Code:

cvs -d :pserver:francis@10.200.2.23:/projects/aa_cesar/ login

cvs will then ask for a password and store it (encrypted, sort of) in ~/.cvspass. In future, cvs will lookup the password in ~/.cvspass and giving it on the command line will be unnecessary, so you can checkout with

Code:

cvs -d :pserver:francis@10.200.2.23:/projects/aa_cesar/ co myproject

fernfrancis · 09-21-2010, 12:38 AM

but what if i wasnt to put it in a script
coz the developers do this on a frequent basis they need to checkout and compile the code every week
so inorder to make life easy i developed this script for them but the problem is that it does not accept special characters

is there any way out instead of changing the password

prayag_pjs · 09-21-2010, 01:09 AM

Entries with spaces or other special characters in them should be enclosed in quotes.

Refer this link ... i used cvs long time back.. now using svn .. but htis link will be helpful to you... it has one script...

though its not related to special characters in password but special character in data ... you can refer it ...

http://www.brain.com.pk/~mnk/Tutoria...6lev1sec3.html

fernfrancis · 09-21-2010, 11:51 PM

I tried what u said by putting double quotes , single quotes curly braces for the passowrd entry but nothing seems to work in the script , is there any other alternative