[PATCH 5/6] git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswd

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2010, 02:46 UTC
Message-ID: <1273891564-7523-6-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3an9tc5w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

This perl snippet is useful for quickly making a password without htpasswd(1).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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 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 bc2da8c..5825787 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>

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