Re: Problem with migrating Repository from Solaris to Linux

[Joerg Reiners]

If I use :ext:server.my.home:/repos as CVSROOT I get a different
error message saying:

'from cvs serverning: unrecognized response' ok

I have to interrupt the command as it hangs afterwards.
"rsh server.my.home cvs -v" works fine.

Any idea ??

Regards,
Joerg


Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> Joerg Reiners <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote:
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> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have tried to move our repository from an old solaris machine
> > > > to a new linux box but cvs is not working anymore. 
> > > > I can access
> > > > the repository when using cvs directly on the nfs mounted directory,
> > > > but when I try to use server.my.home:/repos as CVSROOT I always
> > > > get a "permission denied" error saying "cannot create_adm_p
> > > > /tmp/cvs-serv2324/programm".
> > >
> > > Under which permission does the CVS Server (pserver?) run?
> > >
> > > Have you changed the directory and files permissions of the files
> > > within the repository?
> > >
> > > Kind Regards.
> >
> > I do not use a pserver process. cvs uses rsh to connect to the server
> > with the repository. The file permissions are the same as on the old
> > server. Nothing was changed in the repository.
>
>
> You will either need to setup a chrooted CVS server or force creation of
> the public key file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys to use a command="cvs server"
>
> There are documents out there to help you in your setup such as:
>
> http://www.idealx.org/prj/idx-chrooted-ssh-cvs/dist/chrooted-ssh-cvs-server.html
> http://www.netsys.com/library/papers/chrooted-ssh-cvs-server.txt
>
> or you can write your own custom web-editing pages to take a user's SSH
> public key and prepend 'command="cvs server"' to it like
>
> command="cvs server" ssh-dss ...base64-encoded-key... address@hidden
>
> and put it into the user's home directory for them.
>
> In any case, you would need to have the shell be other than nologin.
>
> If you do not have any commitinfo, verifymsg, loginfo trigger scripts to
> ever run, you could make the shell be a restricted shell that only has a
> cvs command in it.
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>         Good luck,
>         -- Mark
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