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>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index f414245..c27ca43 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@
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>
