TortoiseCVS

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:32, Mike Pontillo wrote:
> I want to have it log in with a generic user account over SSH and issue a
> "cvs update -d". I figured out how to do this from the command line, but the
> problem is I can't pipe any "echo" output (the password) into cvs.exe for

Have you considered using Pageant and RSA keys for SSH authentication?
  http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter9.html

-- 
Michael Imamura  zoogie@...
LUG@... Web Guy   http://www.lugatgt.org/

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I actually use that myself when I access
CVS. I was trying to avoid pageant because I had a feeling it might cause
problems with the task scheduler. (We only use this system via Win2000's
Remote Desktop Connection. Do the scheduled tasks run as a service?) Anyway,
I'm gettig desperate enough to try anything, so I investigated using pageant
a bit.

   Using pageant, I can't seem to get it to log in automatically when I use
the command-line "cvs". I wrote a .cmd script that looks somewhat like this:

---------------------
c:
cd \cvsupdate
echo Adding private key into pageant's cache...
start /wait pageant private-key.txt
cd \project
set CVSROOT=:ext:user@...
echo Updating from %CVSROOT%
"c:\program files\tortoisecvs\cvs.exe" -z9 update -d
---------------------

   After 'cvs.exe' runs, I get somewhat garbled output, like:

' from cvs serverng: unrecognized response `Permission denied, please try
again.

   Sometimes it asks me for the password for the user account. (The same one
that I have specified in the CVSROOT) The strange thing is, when I try
running:

"C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\tortoiseplink" user@...

   ... then it logs right in.

   So now I'm back at square one... =/

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Imamura" <zoogie@...>
To: "Mike Pontillo" <lists@...>
Cc: <tortoisecvs-users@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TortoiseCVS] Nightly auto-update?


> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:32, Mike Pontillo wrote:
> > I want to have it log in with a generic user account over SSH and issue
a
> > "cvs update -d". I figured out how to do this from the command line, but
the
> > problem is I can't pipe any "echo" output (the password) into cvs.exe
for
>
> Have you considered using Pageant and RSA keys for SSH authentication?
>   http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter9.html
>
> --
> Michael Imamura  zoogie@...
> LUG@... Web Guy   http://www.lugatgt.org/

Mike Pontillo wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>    I have been tasked with setting up a nightly auto-update from the CVS
> repository, using the Windows task scheduler. Naturally, I want to use
> TortoiseCVS to do this. =) We don't want to set up an anonymous CVS server;
> I want to have it log in with a generic user account over SSH and issue a
> "cvs update -d". I figured out how to do this from the command line, but the
> problem is I can't pipe any "echo" output (the password) into cvs.exe for
> some reason. I noticed that TortoisePlink has a "-pw <password>" option; if
> I could only get to that, I could do what I want. Does anyone know if there
> is a way to short-circuit the command-line arguments sent to TortoisePlink?
> (Am I going to have to roll my own custom version of TortoiseCVS?) I don't
> think I have the resources I need to compile it myself, but I might be able
> to do a stripped-down version... if anyone has any suggestions, I'd
> appreciate them.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Pontillo

Hi Mike-

Use a batch file like the following:


@ECHO OFF

SET CVS_RSH="\path\to\TortoisePlink.exe" -l username -pw password
set CVSROOT=:ext:servername:/path/to/cvsroot
"\path\to\cvs.exe" up -d module



Provided you don't mind having the password in the batch file (it 
doesn't sound like you do), it will work without trouble using at.


Hope this helps-

Geoff

Quick and dirty solution:

    set CVS_RSH=3DTortoisePlink -pw <password>

This is of course highly unsecure and not recommended, so don't tell =
anyone I said it :-)

-Torsten

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Mike Pontillo" <lists@...>
To: <tortoisecvs-users@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:32 PM
Subject: [TortoiseCVS] Nightly auto-update?


> Greetings,
>=20
>    I have been tasked with setting up a nightly auto-update from the =
CVS
> repository, using the Windows task scheduler. Naturally, I want to use
> TortoiseCVS to do this. =3D) We don't want to set up an anonymous CVS =
server;
> I want to have it log in with a generic user account over SSH and =
issue a
> "cvs update -d". I figured out how to do this from the command line, =
but the
> problem is I can't pipe any "echo" output (the password) into cvs.exe =
for
> some reason. I noticed that TortoisePlink has a "-pw <password>" =
option; if
> I could only get to that, I could do what I want. Does anyone know if =
there
> is a way to short-circuit the command-line arguments sent to =
TortoisePlink?