John, the only step i am not clear on is step 4. Where can i find the passwd file that i should use? I assume that you are talking about the shadowed password file. Thanks for you input, Brian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "freebsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:27 PM > Subject: Re: cvs > > > > Brian, all - > > > > It's been a while since I did this. It's a manual operation, and I've > > forgotten any subtleties. > > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brian Henning wrote: > > > > > I am setting up a cvs server on my bsd box. So far i have enabled > pserver in > > > my /etc/initd.conf file. I have added a user called 'cvsuser' i have > created > > > a repository in /home/cvsroot i have pointed my CVSROOT variable to that > > > cvsroot directory. when i enter the command > > > cvs -d :pserver:cvsuser@localhost:/home/cvsroot login > > > i can't get logged in because i don't have a password set in my passwd > file. > > > i created an empty one '/home/cvsroot/passwd' but, i don't know howto > add > > > users to it.. > > > > In order to get started I did something like this: > > > > 1) I created a 'cvsuser' as you did, a real user with a real $HOME > > directory. > > > > 2) I gave that user a 'dumb' password. > > > > 3) I set my pserver to use the same password authorization that the host > > did (PAM/MD5 in this case). > > > > 4) I copied the system's password hash for that user into the right place > > in their line of the CVS 'passwd' file. (DON'T DO THIS FOR A REAL USER > > WITH A SIGNIFICANT PASSWORD!!) > > > > 5) I was then able to 'cvs ... login' as 'cvsuser' using the 'dumb' > > password. > > > > 6) I then gave all my real CVS users the same hash in their respective > > lines in the CVS 'passwd' file, so they wouldn't compromise their regular > > passwords by using them for CVS access. > > > > 7) When I had it working I dropped those passwords back to NULL entries by > > deleting the hash strings, as our access control was independent of CVS > > (and it had better be for you, too!). > > > > IIRC, even if you have a NULL password entry for that user, they have to > > enter _something_ at the prompt. I had some 'turnkey' build scripts and > > those used the dummy user's username as the password. It was accepted even > > though the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd entry was NULL. > > > > I found some examples either in the distribution version of the file, or > > in the 'Cederqvist' document's description of 'Administrative Files'. They > > weren't exactly what I needed, but they got me started. > > > > If that doesn't help, I'll go poke around in the setup and see what I > > _really_ did. > > > > DISCLAIMER: this was in RedHat Linux-7.1. > > > > - John Mills > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
