Re: WinCVS problem with windows on linux

[Derek R. Price]

Paddy T wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a windows virtual machine running on linux.I
> want to set up WinCVS on this machine.
> After installing and setting cvsroot,when I try to
> check out ,I am getting the error
>
> cvs checkout aborted:cannot log in local user ' '
> ,cannot login remote user ' '
> permission denied by rshd.
>
> I have added the machine name in the .rhosts file
> What else is required for Wincvs to run in this setup?
> Can anyone advice?
> Thanks for any help.

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC171

Also note the comment that the standard NT version of RSH is
unsuiitable.  Replacing it with SSH works and I think the CygWin RSH and
maybe MKS UNIX tools RSH work as well.

Derek

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