Re: cvs encryption question

[Larry Jones]

gaoth writes [in exceeding long lines]:
> 

> My first question is how the cvsuser's password generate.

CVS doesn't generate passwords, it only checks them.

> I konw the password generation uses the "encrypt",maybe like
> "password=encrypt(plainpassword,salt)",but i am not clear that if the
> salt is fixed,if yes what is it?if not how does it generate?

Things that do generate passwords usually pick the salt randomly.

> The other question is :i want to make my cvs server support anonymous
> login,so i put one line in my passwd file like
> this"anoyymous::sysusr",but it didn't work when i login from a remote
> computer useing pserver mode,what is the problem?

It's hard to say -- you haven't said what version of CVS you're running
or exactly what goes wrong.  Perhaps your server is too old to
understand empty passwords.  Perhaps your client is too old to
understand anonymous access.  Perhaps you did something else wrong.

-Larry Jones

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research
to finding a cure for jerks. -- Calvin