Re: running cvs from cgi program

[Mark Harrison]

Derek R. Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark Harrison wrote:
> 
> > I have a cgi script which does an anonymous pserver checkout
> > from sourceforge.  I'm a bit surprised that cvs looks in root's
> > home directory for .cvspass.
> >
> > >cvs checkout: could not open /home/root/.cvspass: Permission denied
> > >cvs [checkout aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
> 
>     http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182

It doesn't quite say so, but this this gave me the general idea
to set HOME=~nobody which fixed everything... Thanks!