A. Create and Populate CVS Password file
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A. Create and Populate CVS Password File


In order for the :pserver: access method to work, you need a file that contains CVS password in the CVSROOT folder. This file is CVSROOT/passwd

It would contain one line for each account that should have access

For example

Hale:rKjboxk12K
anonymous:

Note: the passwords are encrypted (very trivial encryption).

If you want these accounts to use another's accounts rights, you would put a ":xxx" on the end, where xxx is the new account.
Hale:rKboxk12K:cvs means that the accounts Hale has a password that encrptys to rKboxk12K and uses account the rights from account "cvs".