[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/05/2000 10:47:30 AM
>Noel L Yap writes:
>>
>> Anyway, "cvs login" works fine now, but when I try to do "cvs co CVSROOT"
this
>> is what I get:
>> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
>> cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied
>
>(Sigh.) This problem gets reported at least twice a week -- haven't you
>been paying attention, Noel? :-)
Sorry, since I've only had to deal with pserver recently, I've been ignoring all
messages pertaining to it.
>You need to add a -f global option in inetd.conf and if that doesn't fix
>it (which means you're running Linux with its defective inetd), you need
>to arrange to unset $HOME in the server's environment. The easiest way
>is by using env to run cvs with a completely empty environment by
>changing inetd to something like:
>
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/env - /usr/local/bin/cvs -f
>--allow-root=/usr/home/nyap/.cvsroot-test pserver
Yes, I have it setup on Linux. This worked (although I had to
s|/usr/bin/env|/usr/bin/env env|).
>> cvspserver 2401/tcp
>> cvspserver 2401/udp
>
>CVS only uses TCP, so you can get rid of the UDP line if you like.
The udp line was already there, so I'll probably leave it.
>> Another thing I've tried was to explicitly create the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd
>> file. When doing this, I'm able to "cvs login" fine, but when I
>> "cvs co -c" I get:
>> Fatal error, aborting.
>> 4642: no such user
>> cvs checkout: authorization failed: server rh rejected access
>>
>> My $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file looks like:
>> nyap:<crypted passwd>
>
>Are you sure that's what it looks like? That error message almost
>always means that you're using an extract from /etc/passwd, which has a
>different format than CVSROOT/passwd:
>
> <user>:<password>:<gid>:<uid>...
>
>In CVSROOT/passwd, the third field is the user to run as.
The line in inetd.conf was all I had to fix. I guess the passwd file was a
strange symptom/side effect.
Noel
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