Larry, First let me say "thanks" for your time in helping me resolve this and secondly I like the Calvin quotes.
OK, here is where I am at now: I removed the user "cvs" and created the new user "cvsuser" as a system id. I chown all the stuff so that everything from /home/CVSROOT on down shows user "cvsuser" and group "cvs". I then deleted the passwd file. Now when I try to login I get the following message: "cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX rejected access to /home/CVSROOT for user craig" So it looks like I have gotten a little further. I have verified that user "craig" has group "cvs", so why would it be rejecting it? Thanks. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: "No Such System User" > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) > Date: Wed, February 13, 2008 4:03 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Both of the users I have tried exist on the server. This is a new > > server and right now there are only two user accounts, mine & root. > > The passwd file looks like this: > > > > root:*******:cvs > > craig:******:cvs > > That says that both root and craig should run as the system user "cvs", > which is the system user that doesn't exist. > > > If I wanted the cvs server to just use the /etc/shadow file instead > > how would I do that? > > Just get rid of the CVSROOT/passwd file or remove all the entries from > it, and make sure that you haven't specified SystemAuth=no in the > CVSROOT/config file. But please read the section of the manual on > pserver security considerations if you haven't already: > > <http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.12.13/cvs_2.html#SEC33> > > -Larry Jones > > It's like SOMEthing... I just can't think of it. -- Calvin
