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

[Mark Griffiths]

Tony, Torsten:

Thanks for the info.  I will take a look at using the alternative methods
mentioned.

-Mark

"Torsten Martinsen" <torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote in message
news:mailman.815.1048794722.22290.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
> Tony Hoyle wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:11:07 -0000, "Mark Griffiths" <mark at chive.com>
wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >
> FWIW, TortoiseCVS has (until now) always written the password to stdin.
> The primary reason for this being that it works with any client that
> people care to use, not just CVSNT.
>
> Users reported that logging in did no longer work, so TortoiseCVS has
> now been rewritten to use PostMessage() instead.
>
> -Torsten