cvs and inetd/xinetd

[Michael Lindrum]

Hi,

in the current version of cvs 1.11, the documentation describes the use of
inetd for cvs in client/server mode. This description is not correct for the
use of xinetd which is commonly installed on Linux systems. It took a lot of
time for me to find out how cvs and xinetd work together. An example script
for xinetd (/etc/xinetd.d) in the cvs package would be fine.

Furthermore, invoking cvs directly from xinetd doesn't work because of
trying to access to $HOME of root. I would be fine, to deliver an example
shell script which can be invoked instead. The code should look like

    #! /bin/bash
    export HOME=
    /usr/bin/cvs -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver $1 $2 ...

(But maybe I'm wrong and the solution for the $HOME/root problem is quite
different.)

For security considerations, it might be useful to describe in the
documentation the security lack in the case of using rsh compared to
"password authentication" via xinetd/cvs-passwd.

With best regards
Michael Lindrum

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