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Tim Carlson wrote: > but still haven't managed to authenticate users to either the krb5 server > (in my system-auth pam stack) or a local /etc/password entry. Have you enabled PAM when you built CVS (you need the PAM development includes etc.)? Without PAM it's impossible to authenticate against anything except the /etc/passwd file. Everything else is down to PAM configuration, which varies from system to system (you'll be better off on a PAM support list if it gets to this point). > As inidcated in the docs, if I have a CVSROOT/passwd entry like this > > username: > > then any supplied password will authenticate the user. This is still with > the SystemAuth=yes line in place. > You don't use a CVSROOT/passwd file at all if you want to use SystemAuth. Tony