[cvsnt] Re: Changes to how 'cvs login' reads password.

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:11:07 -0000, "Mark Griffiths" <mark at chive.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>We are having trouble getting the latest version of CVSNT working with our
>continuous integration tool Draco.NET [1].
>
>Draco.NET creates the cvs.exe process and, when configured to use pserver,
>writes the password to stdin.  This has worked fine with builds up to and
>including 65, but appears to be broken with the latest rc release.
>
>It appears the cvs.exe is not reading the password from stdin.  Can anybody
>confirm this behaviour change from build 65?  Any ideas how we can login
>non-interactively?  I will try to narrow down exactly which version things
>stopped working, but I'm not getting great transfer rates today.
>
Looking at the logs shows nothing special around that time - the getpass
routine was written in early 2000, and only modified for build 73 when plink
integration was added.  Normally, though, a frontend will implement login via
the cvsgui protocol - you'll receive a request for CVS_GETPASS and you can
open up a dialog box, request the password, then reply with it.

Tony