Re: CVS LOGIN ERROR

[Larry Jones]

Ibrahim Shaik writes:
> 
> I checked the syslog , for messages from inetd.conf particularly for CVS ,

You want to check for messages from CVS itself, not inetd.

> Why is it giving this error. And why does winCVS or any other client show
> the error as "cvs login
> cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server 66.125.19.74 rejected
> access to /usr/local/cvsrepository for user cvsusergroup".

When this happens, the server should log a message under the DAEMON
facility that says either "login refused for <repository>" (which
indicates that the specified repository isn't valid) or "login failure
(for <repository>)" (which indicates that either the username or
passwordisn't valid).  In the later case, if your system has an AUTHPRIV
facility, it will also log a message there containing the username and
password.  Since it looks like the specified repository exactly matches
the --allow-root= option in inetd.conf, I'd say either the username or
password isn't right: are you using a $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file or
system authorization?

-Larry Jones

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