Re: Generating Passwords for Storing in the passwd file

saad tawwab wrote:
> Hello!!
> 
> I am running my CVSNT server a PServer. In my application I need to be 
> able to create users. In order to do this I have to store the user names 
> with the *Encrypted* passwords in the passwd file in the CVSROOT dir of 
> the CVSNT server. I wanted to know if there are any Java Libraries/Java 
> Utilities/any classes in CVSLib that can be used to generate passwords 
> that are to be stored in the passwd file.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Saad Tawwab
> 


no, the client library can you encrypt the password for the .cvspass file. (which is actually no 
real encrytion, it just hides the plain text.

Thomas Singer has such a feature in smartcvs, I believe. Is that correct, Thomas?

Regards.

Milos