Re: CVS Problem

[Manuel Ledesma]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

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> Manuel Ledesma <address@hidden> writes:
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> > I was using CVS in local machine fine; running on top of Fedore Core 4.
> > my cvs version is 1.11.20 and after updating my system, I started
> > getting this error:
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> > cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from localhost: cvs
> > pserver: cannot open /var/cvs/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
> >    
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> It means that the /var/cvs/CVSROOT/config file on your system may not be
> read due to a permissions problem. One presumes that you have set
> CVSROOT=:pserver:<hostname>:/var/cvs on the machine, but that your
> /var/cvs/CVSROOT/config file has insufficient permissions to allow
> read by either root and/or the user doing the 'cvs login' command.
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> Check your local filesystem permissions for / /var /var/cvs
> /var/cvs/CVSROOT /var/cvs/CVSROOT/config ... are any of those
> directories mounted via NFS? If so, then you may need to worry about
> the filesystem under the mount point as well.
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>         Good luck,
>         -- Mark
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I checked the permission and they looked OK, I'm not using NFS.

Here is the list of files from CVSROOT:

-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  495 Apr 20 22:30 checkoutlist
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  699 Apr 20 22:29 checkoutlist,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  760 Apr 20 22:30 commitinfo
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  964 Apr 20 22:29 commitinfo,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  990 Apr 20 22:30 config
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1353 Apr 20 22:30 config,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  602 Apr 20 22:30 cvswrappers
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  806 Apr 20 22:29 cvswrappers,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1025 Apr 20 22:30 editinfo
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1229 Apr 20 22:29 editinfo,v
-rw-rw-rw-  1 cvsuser root   84 Apr 20 22:30 history
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1141 Apr 20 22:30 loginfo
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1345 Apr 20 22:29 loginfo,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1151 Apr 20 22:30 modules
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1355 Apr 20 22:29 modules,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  564 Apr 20 22:30 notify
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  768 Apr 20 22:29 notify,v
-rw-r--r--  1 cvsuser root   31 Apr 20 22:34 passwd
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  649 Apr 20 22:30 rcsinfo
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  853 Apr 20 22:29 rcsinfo,v
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  879 Apr 20 22:30 taginfo
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1083 Apr 20 22:29 taginfo,v
-rw-rw-rw-  1 cvsuser root    0 Apr 20 22:29 val-tags
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1026 Apr 20 22:30 verifymsg
-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1230 Apr 20 22:29 verifymsg,v