David Katz wrote:
>
> I'm having a devil of a time logging into cvs using pserver. I know
> cvs is working properly. I can use it from the command line to check
> things in and out (just not log in). I think the problem has to do
> with the passwd setup. On Mandrake Linux (a flavor similar to Red
> Hat), the /etc/passwd file using shadowing, so cvs can't read the
> passwords directly from there.
>
> Okay, so we create a CVSROOT/passwd file, right? Sure. I created the
> file and I know cvs is reading it because if I try to log in with a
> fake user name, it tells me:
>
> "no such user cvs in CVSROOT/passwd"
>
> We're making progress. But I've tried so many ways of encrypting a
> password combo and putting it into the passwd file (with salt, without
> salt, using cryptpw-which someone posted on this board, using htpasswd)
> and I always get the same error:
>
> "cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server db.totalcreativeinc.com: EOF"
>
> Aaaargh!
>
> If I try from WinCVS, I get this error:
>
> "cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server
> db.totalcreativeinc.com rejected access"
>
> I can't help but think that there's some secret way to populate that
> CVSROOT/passwd file that's going work. Please help! I've seen some
> commentary on whether to actually add the passwd file to CVSROOT using
> cvs, or to not because it could be a security risk. I'd appreciate any
> feedback on that issue as well.
>
> Here is my environment-
>
> $CVSROOT
> /usr/local/cvsroot
>
> $CVSROOT permissions
> user: cvs_root
> group: tci_sf
>
> /etc/inetd.conf
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs
> --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
>
> /etc/services
> cvspserver 2401/tcp # CVS client/server
> operations
> # Keep only one version of cvspserver running (tcp version
> #cvspserver 2401/udp # CVS client/server
> operations
>
> telnet to db.totalcreativeinc.com:2401
> Connected to db.totalcreativeinc.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start:
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> CVSROOT/config
> SystemAuth=no
>
> CVSROOT/passwd
Your passwd file is located in /usr/local/cvsroot/CVSROOT right? Note
that the passwd file is not a ",v" file. It is not committed.
> cvs_root:$1$acZgejPN$G9TuTzvI49woVf9.zJ3YM0 (<-- currently with salt)
>
> login command
> cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot
> login
>
> login error
> (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> CVS password:
> cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server db.totalcreativeinc.com: EOF
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David Katz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Chief Technical Officer
> Total Creative Inc.
> 415-421-9200 x.255 (v)
> 415-421-9222 (f)
> http://www.totalcreativeinc.com
