Re: rejecteed when logging with passwd apparently OK

[Larry Jones]

smaraux writes:
> 
> a cvs server setup tutorial adviced to do so :
> take the /etc/shadow file and take off all services lines,
> then only keep first and second field of each line.
> the tutorial was :
> http://www.michael-amorose.com/cvs/6_1.html
> and you can read it on step 8.

That's fine -- I just wanted to be sure you weren't trying to use
/etc/shadow without having modified it.  However, there really isn't any
point in doing that -- you can get exactly the same result by using
SystemAuth=yes in your CVSROOT/config file (which is the default) and
not having a CVSROOT/passwd file.

> 3. your config looks like mine, exept that you define a PATH for passenv. Is
> it the passwd file path (like $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/) ?

No, that keeps xinetd from passing a bunch of (generally incorrect)
environment variables to CVS.  It says to only pass $PATH and nothing
else.

Did you remember to restart xinetd or send it whatever signal causes it
to re-read its configuration data after adding your cvspserver file?

-Larry Jones

No one can prove I did that!! -- Calvin