Andy Kim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you very much for taking your time to answer my questions. Here 
> are two main errors I am running into with Fink.
> 
> 1. cvs update: tried to log in as anonymous and with blank password. As 
> you see, read-only access failed. I was doing this updates in an effort 
> to update libmpfr.
> 
> /usr/bin/su admin -c 'cvs 
> -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/fink login'
> Logging in to :pserver:[email protected]:2401/cvsroot/fink
> CVS password:
> cvs login: warning: failed to open /Users/admin/.cvspass for reading: 
> Permission denied
> cvs [login aborted]: could not open /Users/admin/.cvspass for writing: 
> Permission denied

As it says, there is something wrong with the permissions of the file 
.cvspass in the "admin" user's home directory. What do you get from

   ls -la ~/.cvspass

? If it has the wrong ownership, you can repair it with

   sudo chown admin /Users/admin/.cvspass

-- 
Martin

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