RE: CVS LOGIN ERROR

[Ibrahim Shaik]

Hi ,

Thanks for a prompt reply . I appreciate that.

I had tried both the options , I added a user ( & group called cvsusergroup)
and added few existing Unix users (myself,sysadmin ) to this group.

I defined "cvsusergroup" user's home directory as cvsrepository. Also made
that user as owner of that group. Gave --rwe-- permissions to the
repository.

I also have a CVS admin GUI page from where I can add cvs users. I added few
cvs users and defined them to access the files as "cvsusergroup" ... This
added the following lines to $CVSROOT/cvsroort/passwd file

Ibrahim:<password>:cvsusergroup
cvsusergroup:<password>:cvsusergroup.

I am really going crazy with this error. What is the "cvspserver/tcp: bind:
Address already in use" error?

How do we define cvspserver to authenticate the users againt the users in
the passwd file or against the system users?

Thanks
Ibrahim

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:lawrence.jones@eds.com]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:24 PM
To: Ibrahim Shaik
Cc: info-cvs@gnu.org; bug-cvs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CVS LOGIN ERROR


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

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me. --
Calvin
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