Changing CVS passwords on Windows

First of all – Use Cygwin, don’t use CVSNT. CVSNT writes the password to the registry instead of a file, and some apps don’t look in the registry.

1. Set your home directory
2. Open Cygwin
3. Issue the following command

cvs -d :pserver:username@servername:/pathToRep login

Then enter your password.
4. Check your HOME dir to make sure the .cvspass is there and that the update date is today.
5. Be thankful that you didn’t try CVSNT

CVS login from windows command line

I always forget this so here it is for all to see and remember


cvs -d :pserver:"username"@"repoName":"repoPath" login

After pressing enter, you will be asked for the password.