Larry Jones wrote:
>
> Harald Kucharek writes:
> >
> > I can do a login as rwusr1, but when I want to run a command, I get
> >
> > Fatal error, aborting.
> > cvs
> > : no such user
> > cvs diff: authorization failed: server srvrhost rejected access
>
> If that's the exact error message you're getting (with a newline after
> "cvs"), you've got some kind of a control character (probably a <CR>) at
> the end of the lines in CVSROOT/passwd. If the server is running on a
> Unix machine, the passwd file *must* be a normal Unix format text file.
As I expected, it was the second silliest mistake I made. And I remember that
I was just starting to tracking down this possibility, becaue that error message
looked like having a line break in a strange place, when a collegue came into my office
we had to talk about some other subject and then I lost that track....
Thanks
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> The living dead don't NEED to solve word problems. -- Calvin
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