Re: Error in webwml/english/doc/cvs.wml

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:07:40PM +0200, Johan Haggi wrote:
> there is an error in webwml/english/doc/cvs.wml (1.13/Apr 18 09:51 2002)
> line 159 (how to generate an encrypted password to use on the pserver):
>  
> <code>makepasswd --crypt --clear=<var>your_password</var></code>
>  
> I do an example from my system (potato r5) because I read well English
> but don't write well it:
>  
> johan@debian:~$ makepasswd --crypt --clear=my_pwd
> mkpasswd:  Could not read my_pwd, error: No such file or directory
> mkpasswd:  For more information, type:  mkpasswd --help
> johan@debian:~$ makepasswd --help
> [...]
> --clearfrom=FILE Use a clear password from FILE instead of generating passwords.
> [...]
> 
> This maybe is better:
>  
> <code>echo <var>your_password</var> > pwd.tmp<br>
> makepasswd --crypt --clearfrom=pwd.tmp<br>
> rm pwd.tmp</code>
>  
> johan@debian:~$ echo my_pwd > pwd.tmp
> johan@debian:~$ makepasswd --crypt --clearfrom=pwd.tmp
> my_pwd     aWqAyY5M2nBGY
> johan@debian:~$ rm pwd.tmp

Actually the command in the document wasn't supposed to use a file :)

I'll just replace the silly makepasswd with mkpasswd, from the whois
package. Thanks for the note.

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