--- cvs-1.11.1p1/src/login.c.bero	Tue Jul 31 18:12:58 2001
+++ cvs-1.11.1p1/src/login.c	Tue Jul 31 18:17:32 2001
@@ -322,8 +322,18 @@
     fp = CVS_FOPEN (passfile, "r");
     if (fp == NULL)
     {
-	error (0, errno, "warning: failed to open %s for reading", passfile);
-	goto process;
+         /* 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);