Re: problem setting cvs pserver

[Larry Jones]

sajag writes:
> 
> cvs -t -d:pserver:address@hidden:/var/cvsroot login
>  -> main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/var/cvsroot
> Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/var/cvsroot
> CVS password:
>  -> Connecting to blabla.com(blabla.com):2401
> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from blabla.com: cvs
> pserver: cannot open /var/cvsroot/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
>  -> Lock_Cleanup()

That indicates that the infrastructure is working correctly.  The error
should be self explanatory -- pserver doesn't have read permission for
the config file.  Is inetd running pserver as root?  If so, that implies
that your repository is NFS mounted, which is a very bad idea.  If not,
you'll have to map all users to whatever user pserver is running as
(which is also a bad idea) and adjust your repository permissions.

-Larry Jones

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