Re: CVS and password

[Larry Jones]

Colin Bester writes:
> 
> And then did a commit on both config and passwd (after adding passwd).

passwd is usually edited in place rather than being maintained with CVS
for security reasons.  If you're sure you want to maintain it with CVS,
you need to add it to CVSROOT/checkoutlist so that it gets updated when
committed.

> When trying to log on I now get:
> "no such user username in CVSROOT/passwd
> cvs login: authorization failed: server homenet.net rejected access to
> /myrepos for user username"

The key part of that message is "no such user username in
CVSROOT/passwd".

-Larry Jones

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