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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index f414245b43..c27ca4350e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option. +Alternatively you can produce the password with perl's crypt() operator: +----- + perl -e 'my ($user, $pass) = @ARGV; printf "%s:%s\n", $user, crypt($user, $pass)' $USER password +----- + Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example: ------ cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name> |