From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CVS password Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:50:48 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033035399 1612 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2002 10:16:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17uVhG-0000Pl-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:16:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uVhQ-0003Rv-00; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:16:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.uni-dortmund.de!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g+0t+cmleK22ltniqXZjLgCx2Lw= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105334 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1886 pocm@mega.ist.utl.pt (Paulo J. Matos) writes: > How can I let emacs know the pass for the CVS? I take it you are using ssh to access the remote repository. By using private/public keys and the ssh-agent feature, you don't need to type the password every time, it is sufficient to tell it once to the ssh-agent. This is more convenient and works around the current Emacs shortcoming. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)