Monday, March 27, 2006

Log in and Password issues in WinCVS

All this while I was using WinCVS 1.3 Beta cycle and it had a Log in... and Log out... feature in the menu that would allow you to login and logout of the cvs. The annoying thing is that everytime you try to login, you have to enter a password. at least I don't know of a way in which one could save the password for picking it later.

After getting spitted on too many times today I decided to go for WinCVS 2.0 and they do have a feature of storing the password and asking WinCVS to connect with those settings. Dont get too happy - the password is not encrypted, it is plain text and it is passed as an argument to the cvs login as -d. So if someone were to come to my machine, they can get the password which I use to login to my CVS. I guess it is ok for certain cases, but for most of the cases it is not, as you need to make sure your workstation is locked when you are not there OR when you are trying to catch a nap in the afternoons when your boss is not looking and someone tries to steal your password.

If someone knows how to ***** the password in WinCVS please do let me know.

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