Re: CVS Problem

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Manuel Ledesma <address@hidden> writes:

> Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> >Manuel Ledesma <address@hidden> writes:
> >>Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> >>>Manuel Ledesma <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>I was using CVS in local machine fine; running on top of Fedore Core 4.
> >>>>my cvs version is 1.11.20 and after updating my system, I started
> >>>>getting this error:
> >>>>
> >>>>cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from localhost: cvs
> >>>>pserver: cannot open /var/cvs/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
> >>>>
> >>I checked the permission and they looked OK, I'm not using NFS.
> >>
> >>Here is the list of files from CVSROOT:
> >>
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  495 Apr 20 22:30 checkoutlist
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  699 Apr 20 22:29 checkoutlist,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  760 Apr 20 22:30 commitinfo
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  964 Apr 20 22:29 commitinfo,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  990 Apr 20 22:30 config
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1353 Apr 20 22:30 config,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  602 Apr 20 22:30 cvswrappers
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  806 Apr 20 22:29 cvswrappers,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1025 Apr 20 22:30 editinfo
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1229 Apr 20 22:29 editinfo,v
> >>-rw-rw-rw-  1 cvsuser root   84 Apr 20 22:30 history
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1141 Apr 20 22:30 loginfo
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1345 Apr 20 22:29 loginfo,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1151 Apr 20 22:30 modules
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1355 Apr 20 22:29 modules,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  564 Apr 20 22:30 notify
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  768 Apr 20 22:29 notify,v
> >>-rw-r--r--  1 cvsuser root   31 Apr 20 22:34 passwd
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  649 Apr 20 22:30 rcsinfo
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  853 Apr 20 22:29 rcsinfo,v
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root  879 Apr 20 22:30 taginfo
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1083 Apr 20 22:29 taginfo,v
> >>-rw-rw-rw-  1 cvsuser root    0 Apr 20 22:29 val-tags
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1026 Apr 20 22:30 verifymsg
> >>-r--r--r--  1 cvsuser root 1230 Apr 20 22:29 verifymsg,v
> >>
> >The permissions look okay. You probably want to add the -t switch
> >
> >cvs -t -d :pserver:localhost:/var/cvs login
> >
> >to see if you can glean any more information about what is failing.
> >It could be some kind of bad argument to your xinetd.conf configuration
> >What do you have in /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver ?
> >Does it look something like this?
> >
> > ------- cut here for sample /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver -------
> ># default: on
> ># description: The CVS pserver is one of the most \
> ># insecure of protocols. It is not recommended \
> ># that you even consider using this on a network \
> ># where any potentially malicious users or viruses \
> ># might be able to attack it. Please consider \
> ># moving to use the :ext: method with CVS_RSH=ssh \
> ># in user environments as an alternative.
> >
> >service cvspserver
> >{
> >   port        = 2401
> >   socket_type = stream
> >   protocol    = tcp
> >   wait        = no
> >   user        = root
> >   passenv     = PATH
> >   server      = /usr/bin/cvs
> >   server_args = -f --allow-root=/var/cvs pserver
> >}
> > ------- cut here for sample /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver -------
> >
> >     Good luck,
> >     -- Mark
> >
> >
> I really don't know what can be the cause? I changed my cvspserver
> file to yours.

Did it help? (Mine was just an example I threw together, I was trying
to get you to provide information on your own configuration file.)

> Here are my entries in services file ...
> cvspserver      2401/tcp                        # CVS client/server
> operations
> cvspserver      2401/udp                        # CVS client/server
> operations
> 
> cvs version 1.11.20
> kernel version 2.6.11-1.1240_FC4

(Note: I have not yet played with FC4 myself...)

I don't see any 'cvs -t -d :pserver:localhost:/var/cvs login' output,
did I miss it?

        -- Mark
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