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Re: [Newbie question] When LOGIN fails
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Derek R. Price |
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Re: [Newbie question] When LOGIN fails |
Date: |
Wed, 30 May 2001 09:32:30 -0400 |
"David A. Cobb" wrote:
> Today I was working with a repository at the other end of an SSH tunnel.
>
> My CVS LOGIN was rejected: "server denied access to ${CVSROOT}"
>
> However, while experimenting with Xemacs/PCL-CVS I requested to STATUS,
> and then to UPDATE my directories. Both functions apparently worked.
>
> Does this indicate that the login only applies to a comit?
> Is this by design, or is it a big security hole?
No. You were most likely using different logins/passwords/roots somehow for the
different cases you describe above.
Derek
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