From f4ec5db7910f360a17bf9f27a8bba61748aa06a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 23:14:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the fact that .cvspass might have to be created (as
 an empty file) before 'cvs login' works.

---
 en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
index bc512eef01..8d579e7364 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
@@ -1094,6 +1094,16 @@
 	  &man.cvs.1; command to access it like any local
 	  repository.</para>
 
+	<note>
+	  <para>The <command>cvs login</command> command, stores the passwords
+	    that are used for authenticating to the CVS server in a file
+	    called <filename>.cvspass</filename> in your
+	    <literal>HOME</literal> directory.  If this file doesn't exist,
+	    you might get an error when trying to use <command>cvs
+	    login</command> for the first time.  Just make an empty
+	    <filename>.cvspass</filename> file, and retry to login.</para>
+	</note>
+
 	<para>While it can also be said that the <link
 	  linkend="cvsup">CVSup</link> and <emphasis>anoncvs</emphasis>
 	  services both perform essentially the same function, there are