Problem Encounterd : cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed.
 

Hi guys,

I have a server with RHEL 4 AS installed.CVS was installed with the linux.

i am still quite lost at how does one setup the CVS to be accessable by users remotely. As i am able to set the CVSROOT locally and do "cvs init" , "cvs login" , "cvs import" and "cvs checkout/commit"

I was told to use pserver as it enabled users to use cvs without logging in throught SSH.

But i kept obtaining this message when i tried to log into the pserver.
"cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server 10.110.0.21 rejected access to /usr/cvs_repository for user cvs"

"/user/cvs_repository" has already been chgrp to user "cvs" and read and write access has also been given on the directory.

any idea how can i setup the pserver correctly?

Thanks a million!

Hi guys i have did a search in google once again and i stumbled upon a online CVS documentation.

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/cvsmanual


And in this manual i have found the error that ocurred to me.
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs...onnection.html

It is said that i should
QUOTE
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then you probably haven't specified ‘-f’ in ‘inetd.conf’.
"

specified -f in inetd.conf? or in my case xinetd.conf? so how do i go about specifing -f in xinetd.conf?

Thanks.

i found a more recent guide for installation of CVS.
http://www.person13.com/blog/archives/000048.html

Now that i have read the article that he wrote i am getting a new error message.

login with:
"cvs -d :pserver:maxma@cvsserverip:/usr/local/cvsrepository/ login"

error msg:
"/usr/local/cvsrepository/project1: no such repository"

but it does exists. i manage to checkin and check out files at the terminal with the correct $CVSROOT path. $CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsrepository/

help?

Thanks in advance~

I have figured it out myself eventually.

It seems that in the xinetd.conf i added the cvspserver file. but i added a additional / at the end of the allow-root directory and it was unable to allow root access into the folder.

E.G. it didn't work with the / behind the path
"server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsrepository/ pserver"

It worked after this.
"server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsrepository pserver"


In the process i also turned off my selinux.
But now i'm turning it back on and testing if cvs will run along side it.