Login Command
The full syntax of the -d option and the login command is as follows:
CVS -d colon accessMethod colon userName@(machineName or IPAddress) colon portNumber/directoryName
Example:
CVS -d :pserver:Hale@192.168.1.7:2401 /usr/local/cvsrepos login
CVS will ask you for a password.
The password is stored in .cvspass in your home directory.
By default in Windows it is in a file called c:\.cvspass
Passwords are encrypted, but the encryption is trivial!
NOTE the period before cvspass. The file name is dotCVSPASS.