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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2010-05-15 02:46:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-05-19 21:02:59 -0700 |
| commit | 70d5dd1f71aab4b55bf3bc3e7f5031dc655c7fdf (patch) | |
| tree | 223f6322811ff4a1721e3f47ced31d7cab7ea637 /Documentation | |
| parent | 475357a32a55c3624011e3945f9659f4cb365f1b (diff) | |
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git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswd
This perl snippet is useful for quickly making a password without
htpasswd(1).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index f414245b4..c27ca4350 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> |