--- cvs-nserver-1.11.1.4/src/login.c	Sat May 26 16:03:39 2001
+++ cvs-1.11.2/src/login.c	Tue Dec 10 10:59:02 2002
@@ -324,8 +329,18 @@
     fp = CVS_FOPEN (passfile, "r");
     if (fp == NULL)
     {
-	error (0, errno, "failed to open %s for reading", passfile);
-	goto error_exit;
+         /* The password file doesn't exist yet - probably because it's
+         * the first time someone uses cvs login. Create it.
+         */
+        fp = CVS_FOPEN (passfile, "w");
+        fclose (fp);
+        fp = CVS_FOPEN (passfile, "r");
+        if (fp == NULL)
+        {
+            /* Creating the password file didn't work. Bail out. */
+            error (0, errno, "warning: failed to open %s for reading", passfile);
+            goto process;
+        }
     }
 
     cvsroot_canonical = normalize_cvsroot (root);
@@ -380,6 +378,8 @@
 	password = xstrdup (password);
     }
 
+process:
+
     /* might as well return now */
     if (operation == password_entry_lookup)
 	goto out;