[cvsnt] Can I use pserver on Linux under not root account?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Jul 19 11:35:56 BST 2004


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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:41:03 +0400, "Gennady G. Marchenko"
<gennady.marchenko at iss.ru> wrote:

>i realy need to run cvs under separated account, but login fails with error:
>
>"setgid failed: Operation not permitted"
>
>Anybody know how i can fix it?
>
Yes, run under root :)

Alternatively, you have to alias all your users in the CVSROOT/passwd
to the same user that cvs is running under.  You can't use
SystemAuth=Yes in this scenario.

Tony




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