[cvsnt] Can't log in to cvsnt 2.5.01

Mon May 16 02:36:43 BST 2005

> 1. The 'admin' file resides in <path to repository>/CVSROOT. Your path
from above is missing a second (UPPERCASE) CVSROOT.

Sorry, I'm miswritten only. What I mean is /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT.

For better assumption, I'll write down all steps I've done:

(0) OS: RHEL AS 3
(1) I create user 'cvsnt'
(2) /etc/cvsnt/PServer

Repository0=/usr/local/cvsroot
LockServer=localhost:2402

(3) /etc/xinet.d/cvsnt

service cvspserver
{
        disable        = no
        socket_type    = stream
        wait           = no
        user           = cvsnt
        group          = cvsnt
        log_type       = FILE /home/cvsnt/cvspserver.log
        env            = 'HOME=/user/local/cvsroot'
        server         = /usr/local/bin/cvsnt
        server_args    = authserver
}

(4) I restart xinetd service, and cvslockd listen on port 2402 and
cvspserver on port 2401
(5) I change ownership of /usr/local/cvsroot

drwxrwsr-x    3 cvsnt    cvsnt     4096 May  3 15:07 cvsroot

(5) I change ownership of /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT

drwxrwsr-x    3 cvsnt    cvsnt     4096 May 16 08:09 CVSROOT

(6) I add 'cvsnt' in file /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT/admin
(7) I tried log in via SSH for user 'cvsnt' via SSH is OK (to test it)
(8) I tried log in to CVSNT server as following:

cvs -d :pserver:cvsnt at 192.168.50.41:/usr/local/cvsroot login
Logging in to :pserver:cvsnt at 192.168.50.41:2401:/usr/local/cvsroot
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server 192.168.50.41 rejected
access to /usr/local/cvsroot for user cvsnt

My question is still, how can I make all this work? Am I still missing
something?

Sorry, and thx for any help.

regards,

commedo 

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Wirth
Sent: Jumat, 13 Mei 2005 11:42 comm
To: commedo
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Can't log in to cvsnt 2.5.01

Hello commedo,

Friday, May 13, 2005, 3:24:12 AM, you wrote:

c> user is a system user. I add user in file /usr/local/CVSROOT/admin. CVSNT
c> server still reject the connection with the following message:

c> $ /usr/local/bin/cvs -d
c> :pserver:user at host:2401:/usr/local/cvsroot login
c> Logging in to :pserver:user at host:2401:/usr/local/cvsroot
c> CVS password:
c> cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server host rejected access to
c> /usr/local/cvsroot for user user

1. The 'admin' file resides in <path to repository>/CVSROOT. Your path
from above is missing a second (UPPERCASE) CVSROOT.

2. On unix systems it is mutch better to have cvs act on a single
(special) users accout, not giving every one full access to the
repository. So I would recomend to create a user 'cvs', than 'chown -R
cvs <reopository>'. Make all files read only to u-g-o ('chmode -R
0444'), except the files in CVSROOT. There 'cvs' should have write
access (cvsnt will set appropriate permissions when you first time commit to
CVSROOT).
Set the user 'cvs' as the RunAsUser in /etc/cvsnt/PServer.
Add user 'cvs' to your CVSROOT/admin file.
Make sure cvslockserver is started.

Now you should be able to login to cvs as user 'cvs' "cvs -d
:pserver:cvs at host:/repositoryname login".
As 'cvs' is a repository admin you now can add new cvs users via 'cvs
passwd'. Thease user do not need to have unix accounts on the host
(Alias all users to 'cvs' "cvs passwd -a'username' -rcvs"!).

Btw. I prefere to give my repositories a shorter more speeking name via
/etc/cvsnt/PServer Repository0Name.