This is not a cvs problem. It is a rsh problem which is preventing me from using cvs, so tell me where to go if this list is not appropriate. I have cvs running on a FreeBSD server, and I can run local cvs commands, but although client/server mode connecting via rsh is working when I connect via a dial-up network, it is not working over a LAN.
I can checkout and update on the FreeBSD box using rsh, from an IBM Thinkpad running cygwin on top of Windows 98SE, but only while using the DHCP server of my ISP, connecting over a dial-up network. Trying to run a cvs command on the same Thinkpad connecting through a DHCP server on a university LAN near my home, I get the message, $ cvs checkout wp ms.chinmin.edu.tw: Login incorrect. cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) I get the same rsh message, connecting over the network at school where the server is, from a PC with cygwin installed on top of Windows. Here the IP address is not dynamically assigned. I don't think I am making a mistake with the IP addresses on the LAN that I am entering in .rhosts on the FreeBSD machine. The dynamic IP addresses I get on the LAN, as revealed to me by the Windows program, winipcfg, are also right, because I can connect and login to the cygwin telnet and ftp servers, and run commands remotely with rsh, on the Notebook and PCs under cygwin from the FreeBSD box. Strangely enough, when I run rsh without any commands from the machine on the LAN, as the same local user as I am on the FreeBSD server, I get a password prompt from rlogin and can login successfully. Something seems to be disabled under some circumstances. Incidentally, passwords are not encrypted in /etc/passwd. They are in /etc/master.passwd, apparently. Is this a factor, perhaps? Is a FreeBSD list a good place to ask about rsh? I don't want to ask the admins here to mess with inetd.conf so I can set up the password server. The FreeBSD machine is sometimes under a load, and I don't think they will welcome more servers on it. -- Greg Matheson Chinmin College, Taiwan ~ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
