[nmglug] bash script question,

Andres Paglayan andres at paglayan.com
Mon Mar 21 10:59:51 PST 2005


I was assuming that sourceforge requires anonymous login but it seems 
that I can update straight without login in first
thank you,

Ed Brown wrote:

>Is it necessary for your script to actually login?  You can probably do
>check outs, or updates, for example, without doing the login first.
>
>Otherwise, if you have to do interactive stuff from a script, look into
>the 'script' utility, which can automate login dialogs etc.
>
>-Ed
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>On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:20, Andres Paglayan wrote:
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>>Question,
>>
>>I have a bash script that makes an anonymous login to sourceforge's cvs,
>>but, I want it to be 100% automatic.
>>I am not sure if it's a CVS or a scripting question
>>
>>at login time, after this line,
>>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/project  login
>>the cvs server prompts for a password, which is blank for anonymous,
>>
>>how can I enter that blank password from the script so it doesn't prompt 
>>the user?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>Andres
>>
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