RE: CVS LOGIN ERROR

[Shaun Tancheff]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 20:00, Ibrahim Shaik wrote:
> 
> Hi all ,
> 
> Thanks for the information. My my config file has "SystemAut=no" and looking
> in the password file . Since the CVS user name is similar to the Unix user
> name , it was NOT authenticating all these days. When I changed the CVS user
> name to a unique one , it allowed me to login.
> 
> SystemAuth=yes , is authenticating all the existing unix users . So which
> one is preferred. Shall I maintain CVS users separately or use the existing
> Unix Users.

We the reason(s) that we use a separate CVSROOT/passwd file are:
  - CVS users are an improper subset of UNIX users.
  - Some CVS userids are not UNIX users (role accounts).
  - user/group permissions aren't properly mananged here.

Since CVSROOT/passwd has this format we have cvsadmin 'own' (almost) all
archives in the repository.

username:cryptpass:cvsadmin

Since inetd is executing cvs as root (the parameter after 'nowait'); I
suppose (though I have never tried) inted could run cvs cvsadmin to
similar effect.

> I thank you all for the support and patience .
> 
> Thanks
> Ibrahim
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