Re: CVS pserver on RedHat 7.1 lets me login, but when I do import, it fails

[Olav Lindkjølen]

Something to do with cvs server running as root, inheriting the HOME 
environment variable. Create a user named "cvs" and run the server under 
that user. Or try this as root:

unset HOME
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart

Regards from Olav!

Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> I am trying to set-up a CVS pserver on my RedHat 7.1 development machine.
> I tried reading the CVS book at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com, but it
> does not cover xinetd, so I tried to adapt it myself.
>
> Here is what I did as root:
> cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init
> /usr/sbin/useradd cvs
> cd /usr/local/cvsroot
> chgrp -R cvs .
> chmod ug+rwx . CVSROOT
>
> vi /etc/xinetd.d/cvs and added these lines:
> service cvs
> {
>         port = 2401
>         socket_type = stream
>         protocol = tcp
>         user = root
>         group = cvs
>         server = /usr/bin/cvs
>         server_args = --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
>         type = UNLISTED
>         wait = no
> }
>
> Restarted xinetd:
> /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
>
> vi /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd
> Added my login and password copied from from /etc/shadow
>
> I then tried to test it by going to a shell with my user account.
>
> I typed:
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot login
> It asked me for my password and reported no errors, so I thought that
> everything should be OK.
>
> Next, I tried to import a new project, so I went to the
> directory containing the project and typed:
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot import -m "Test Project"
> testProject neil start
>
> I got these error messages:
> cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
> cvs server: cannot make path to /usr/local/cvsroot/testProject: Permission
> denied
> cvs server: Importing /usr/local/cvsroot/testProject/src
> cvs server: ERROR: cannot mkdir /usr/local/cvsroot/testProject/src -- not
> added: No such file or directory
>
> No conflicts created by this import
>
> Any ideas why this is occurring?
>
> Thanks,
>         Neil.
>
> --
> Neil Aggarwal
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