>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Pascal-Eric Servais
>Organization: Cognicase
net
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Category: cvs
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: cvs-1.10.7
>Environment:
System: Linux 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
>Description:
When I try some command from the server (checkout by example),
everything
works well. But when trying the same command from a remote machine, with
WinCvs or command line from a dos box, I get that message from the
server :
cvs -d :pserver:servpas@linuxdev:/extra/cvs login #> Works fine !
cvs -d :pserver:servpas@linuxdev:/extra/cvs checkout -P CVSROOT
cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
I cannot figure out what happens. I tried to connect to some news group
but
nobody seems to have a solution for that problem; even if I found some
other
poeple that experieced that problem. So I guessed that it was a real bug
and
decided to send that report.
I'm sorry if it isn't ! If it isn't, could you please tell me what is
wrong ?
Here are some configurations used for installing cvs :
>From /etc/services:
cvspserver 2401/tcp #> CVS client/server operations
cvspserver 2401/udp #> CVS client/server operations
>From /etc/inetd.conf:
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs
--allow-root=/extra/cvs pserver
#> I also tried with these arguments :
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs -b /usr/bin cvs
--allow-root=/extra/cvs pserver
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f
--allow-root=/extra/cvs pserver
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f -b /usr/bin
--allow-root=/extra/cvs pserver
>From env on the server:
CVSROOT=/extra/cvs
CVSROOT from the remote client machine :
:pserver:servpas@linuxdev:/extra/cvs
Autentication on the remote client machine :
"passwd" file on the cvs server
>How-To-Repeat:
Anytime when accessing repository with the :pserver: protocol.
>Fix:
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Pascal-Eric Servais ( http://pages.infinit.net/denethor )
Cognicase Multimedia
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