[cvsnt] Re: cvsgui on Solaris

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Feb 7 23:37:48 GMT 2005


Kohn, Robert M. wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am building a GUI application on Solaris using cvsnt and
> the cvsgui source code.  Everything goes fine until the following
> shows up in my shell window:
> 
>   username at host's password:

Sounds like an ssh prompt.

> This prompt does not come from either stderr or stdout;
> where is it coming from?
> How can my GUI application determine when cvs wants a password
> so that I can respond properly?
> And how do I respond?  I.e., which File Descriptor do I write
> to with the password?

AFAIK you can't with ssh - you have to use RSA keys.  Unfortunately I 
never got the :ssh: putty DLL to compile under Unix.

Have you tried asking the gcvs people how they do it? I'm sure they've 
been through all these problems already...

Tony



More information about the cvsnt mailing list