[lug] CVS usage comments

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:04:30PM -0600, Walter Pienciak wrote:
>If you have SSH's RSA authentication working, CVS operations
>are seamless.  If you're using regular password access, you
>get the usual password prompt each time you contact the server
>for an operation.

That's exactly the setup I'm using and indeed it works great.

>There was some question in the meeting as to whether CVS kept
>some record that included bogusly obscured password data.  For
>my setup, I can find nothing like that, and I just went through
>the whole tree. 

It only does that if you are using pserver.  For SSH, of course SSH
does the authentication.

Sean
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