Re: cvs login failure

[Larry Jones]

Luke Kendall writes:
> 
>     CVSROOT set to :pserver:address@hidden:/home/mantovani/cvs-archive
>     Started ssh, so now you need to cvs login:
>     (Logging in to address@hidden)
>     CVS password:
>     cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server localhost rejected 
> access
> 
> Is there any way to find out why the cvs client (or is it the server?)
> rejected the login?  Is there any kind of logging information that can be
> examined?

Like the message says, it's the server that rejected the login.  When
you get just that message with no additional information, it means that
either the user exists but the password didn't match, or the repository
you specified does not match one of the --allow-root= arguments
specified for the server (in /etc/inetd.conf, presumably).  The current
development version now has an additional message for the latter case,
so you'll be able to tell which it is in the future.

-Larry Jones

Another casualty of applied metaphysics. -- Hobbes