>Apologies if this is a repeat...I don't think my first post made it.
>------------------
>I have CVS (1.10.8) on my linux box. Local CVS activity (add,
>commit, etc) work fine. I'm trying to set things up so a remote
>machine can connect to do an update and be brought into sync
>with the CVS server. I set up $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd with
>an entry from /etc/shadow. I believe I have my firewall and xinetd
>set up correctly. the cvs passwd file looks like:
>
>username:paswordgibberish:realuser
>
>where the password is not that of any real user on the machine.
>
>The command I'm using on the remote machine to attempt to
>login is:
>
>cvs -d :pserver:username@servername:/usr/local/cvsroot login
>
>...which yields this error message:
>
>cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server servername
>rejected access
Check the settings in your inetd.conf file, what folder have you
given in --allow-root ?
What are the access restrictions on this folder ?
Also check the trouble shooting appendix in the CVS manual.
>Any ideas? Things to try to debug? Thanks!
>
>-Pete
>
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