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Re: Cannot connect to remote CVS server


From: Geoff Beier
Subject: Re: Cannot connect to remote CVS server
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:15:44 -0500
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207)

John Nichel wrote:

CVSROOT is set to /webserver/vhosts with these lines in /etc/profile...

 >CVSROOT=/webserver/vhosts
 >export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC CVSROOT

Echoing out CVSROOT return this...

 >address@hidden CVSROOT]# echo $CVSROOT
 >/webserver/vhosts

The xinetd entry for the cvs server is as such...

 >service cvspserver
 >{
 >        port = 2401
 >        socket_type = stream
 >        protocol = tcp
 >        user = root
 >        wait = no
 >        disable = no
 >        type = UNLISTED
 >        server = /usr/local/bin/cvs
 >        server_args = -f --allow-root /webserver/vhosts pserver
 >}

I have added my login as a user, which created a 'passwd' file under CVSROOT, and contains this...

 >jnichel:VK8EEGWUHyegg:

All is working fine when I use cvs locally, but when I try to connect remotely, I get this....

 >cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/CVSROOT login
 >/CVSROOT: no such repository
>cvs login: authorization failed: server devbox.local rejected access to /CVSROOT for user jnichel

Why are you specifying /CVSROOT as your CVSROOT remotely when you've specified /webserver/vhosts locally and in your pserver config? Try it with /webserver/vhosts.

HTH,

Geoff




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