The CVS action in VBP just wraps the cvs command-line tool. Did you restart VBP after setting the environment variable? Did you try setting the CVS_PASSFILE env var (
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/c...s_2.html#SEC31)? Note: an alternative to setting the env var externally would be to use a Set Macro action within VBP marked to update environment variables.