Re: No Such User

[Jim Hyslop]

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address@hidden wrote:
> I have been trying to set up a CVS server on my machine using CVSD (a
> chrooted environment for the CVS server to run in).  I have been able
> to start the server and the CVSROOT is located in '/cvs/root/'.  when I
> use the command 'cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/root' it will
> always prompt me for the password for 'username' and then say:
> 
> Fatal error, aborting.
> username: no such user
> 

Well, I'm certainly no expert at chroot jails, but I'm wondering if
there needs to be a copy of /etc/users or /etc/passwd inside the chroot
jail?

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