hi all, i seem to have stepped over one more of the many windows problems: situation: windows 2000, cygwin bash, "cvs login" succeeds, then: ruby script invokes "cvs" via system or backquotes. result: authentication error. but: when i do invoke cvs from the cygwin bash, i can retrieve versions, logs etc. - in other words - login succeeds. did anybody else experience this? any solutions? or at least ideas? thanks a lot! robert ps: thanks for not asking me to switch to linux or other unixes... :-)