From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 02:46:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswd X-Git-Tag: v1.7.2-rc0~67^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70d5dd1f71aab4b55bf3bc3e7f5031dc655c7fdf;p=git.git 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- 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 server/path/repo.git co