I'm having a devil of a time logging into cvs using pserver. I know
cvs is working properly. I can use it from the command line to check
things in and out (just not log in). I think the problem has to do
with the passwd setup. On Mandrake Linux (a flavor similar to Red
Hat), the /etc/passwd file using shadowing, so cvs can't read the
passwords directly from there.
Okay, so we create a CVSROOT/passwd file, right? Sure. I created the
file and I know cvs is reading it because if I try to log in with a
fake user name, it tells me:
"no such user cvs in CVSROOT/passwd"
We're making progress. But I've tried so many ways of encrypting a
password combo and putting it into the passwd file (with salt, without
salt, using cryptpw-which someone posted on this board, using htpasswd)
and I always get the same error:
"cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server db.totalcreativeinc.com: EOF"
Aaaargh!
If I try from WinCVS, I get this error:
"cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server
db.totalcreativeinc.com rejected access"
I can't help but think that there's some secret way to populate that
CVSROOT/passwd file that's going work. Please help! I've seen some
commentary on whether to actually add the passwd file to CVSROOT using
cvs, or to not because it could be a security risk. I'd appreciate any
feedback on that issue as well.
Here is my environment-
$CVSROOT
/usr/local/cvsroot
$CVSROOT permissions
user: cvs_root
group: tci_sf
/etc/inetd.conf
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs
--allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
/etc/services
cvspserver 2401/tcp # CVS client/server
operations
# Keep only one version of cvspserver running (tcp version
#cvspserver 2401/udp # CVS client/server
operations
telnet to db.totalcreativeinc.com:2401
Connected to db.totalcreativeinc.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start:
Connection closed by foreign host.
CVSROOT/config
SystemAuth=no
CVSROOT/passwd
cvs_root:$1$acZgejPN$G9TuTzvI49woVf9.zJ3YM0 (<-- currently with salt)
login command
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot
login
login error
(Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server db.totalcreativeinc.com: EOF
Thanks in advance,
David Katz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chief Technical Officer
Total Creative Inc.
415-421-9200 x.255 (v)
415-421-9222 (f)
http://www.totalcreativeinc.com
