Larry Jones wrote:

> The manual isn't wrong, it's just easily misread.  The problem is that
> there are at least *three* easily identifiable usernames involved when
> running pserver, some or all of which are likely to be the same and thus
> people don't think about them.  They are:
>         1) The username on the client machine.
>         2) The username used to login to the server (i.e., the "user"
>         part of CVSROOT -- :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root).
>         3) The username the server is running as.

To be honest with you, I think the explanation above is much clearer
than the explanation below.  Just my humble opinion.

> USER    Username of the user running CVS (on the CVS server machine).
>         When using pserver, this is the user specified in the repository
>         specification which need not be the same as the username the
>         server is running as (see Section 2.9.3.1 [Password
>         authentication server], page 21).

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