31.4. Using the CVS Server
Once your server is running, CVS clients can connect to it using a repository path like :pserver:username@hostname:repository. Naturally, username must be replaced with the name of a user that the CVS server accepts, hostname with the hostname of your system, and repository with the correct repository directory.
To check out a directory, you could run commands like:
CVSROOT=:pserver:jcameron@fudu.webmin.com:/usr/local/cvsroot export CVSROOT cvs login cvs checkout path/to/directory
The cvs login command should only be run if the server requires a password for the username. It will prompt you for a password, which is permanently stored in the file ~/.cvspass for use by other CVS commands in the future. Any time the ...
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