The internet daemon does run the process as root. Also I tried to connect
with both SystemAuth set to "yes" and "no" within the CVSROOT/config file.
Thanks,
-Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 1:33 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Trouble making a connection to a CVS server
On Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:54 AM, Jay Corrales
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Hello,
> I am having no luck connecting the cvs client to the server. The cvs
server
> gets kicked off by the internet daemon on our SunOS 5.7(=? Solaris 2.7)
> while servicing port 2401 requests. I check the process list and see the
> following line:
>
> solaris2% ps -efl | grep cvs
> 8 S root 16263 155 0 41 20 ? 278 ? 05:24:59 ?
> 0:00 cvs -td /usr/local/cvsroot --allow--root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
>
> However the client never passes the authentication state. For example if
I
> try:
>
> telnet solaris2 2401
>
> After connecting, I send any text (for example "foo" followed by return).
> CVS does not respond at all; instead the telnet session hangs without
> feedback.
>
> solaris2% cvs -version
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 `Halibut' (client/server)
> ...
> solaris2% cat config
> # Set this to "no" if pserver shouldn't check system users/passwords
> #SystemAuth=no
>
> # Set `PreservePermissions' to `yes' to save file status information
> # in the repository.
> #PreservePermissions=no
>
> # Set `TopLevelAdmin' to `yes' to create a CVS directory at the top
> # level of the new working directory when using the `cvs checkout'
> # command.
> #TopLevelAdmin=no
> solaris2%
>
Are you running the pserver as root or another user (in the inetd.conf
file)? Solaris uses a shadow file to store passwords and only root has
read access (by default) to this file. So if pserver is running as root
and SystemAuth=yes (the default) everything works fine. But if pserver is
running as another user, it cannot read the shadow file and therefore
cannot authenticate the password. In this case, you have to create a
password file in CVSROOT.
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