Newbie problem with pserver access

[Chris Backas]

Hello all, 

I'm attempting to setup my first CVS Repository, and things are going 
alright so far; I've gotten a project checked in, and I'm able to check out 
a working copy on the local machine.  I'm having a problem with pserver 
access though.  I'm able to perform a CVS login without any issue, but when 
I try to do a checkout, I receive this error: 

cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied 

/root is, as you probably know or can guess, the home directory for root ;) 

And no, I'm not logging in AS root, or mapping my login to root in 
cvspasswd. 

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. 

Chris Backas