I tried the -f flag and making /root unreadable by others it worked great.
Thanks!
John Scott
IS Middleware Services
-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 July 2000 00:21
To: John Scott
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: permission problem(.cvsignore)
Hello, John!
> When I set up CVS on RH6.2 I did "chmod o+r /root" to give cvs users read
You should not do it.
> access to /root so that when cvs ran it can see that .cvsignore does not
> exist in /root. This is not exactly secure since everyone can read root.
> I've heard that inetd incorrectly sets the home directory. It was reported
> as fixed in RH6.2 but the problem still occurs.
I was wrong, sorry. Although HOME is not set, CVS gets it from getpwuid()
Inetd is not guilty.
> This was the only way I could get it to work. If anyone has a better
> solution, I would be glad to hear it.
Add "-f" to the arguments for cvs in inetd.conf:
cvspserver stream tcp nowait cvsuser /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs -f \
--allow-root=/var/lib/cvs
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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