NAME

       cvsaskpass - prompt for a password for the CVS DCOP service

SYNOPSIS

       cvsaskpass [ generic-options ] prompt

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  displays  a  dialog  box  prompting  the  user  for  the  password to a CVS
       repository, then writes the password to standard output and exits.  You should not need to
       run this program directly - it is designed for the internal use of cvsservice(1).

       The prompt should be of the following form:

              user@host's password:

       This will allow the dialog box to display the details of the CVS repository to the user.

       This  utility  is part of the CVS service provided with Cervisia, which in turn is part of
       the KDE Software Development Kit.

OPTIONS

       For a full summary of options, run cvsaskpass --help.

RETURN VALUE

       If a password was succefully obtained, 0 is returned.  If no prompt was  supplied  on  the
       command-line or if the dialog was cancelled, 1 is returned.

SEE ALSO

       cervisia(1), cvsservice(1), dcop(1).

       Details  of  how  to  use the CVS service from within another script or C++ program can be
       found in /usr/share/doc/libcvsservice0/DESIGN.

AUTHOR

       The CVS service was written by Christian Loose <christian.loose@kdemail.net>.
       Cervisia was  written  by  Bernd  Gehrmann  <bernd@physik.hu-berlin.de>,  Christian  Loose
       <christian.loose@kdemail.net>,   Andre   Woebbeking   <woebbeking@web.de>,   Carlos  Woelz
       <carloswoelz@imap-mail.com> and others.
       This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton  <bab@debian.org>  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).

                                          March 19, 2005                            CVSASKPASS(1)