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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:08:35 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs question
Message-ID:  <20060915120835.GB33397@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <62b856460609150456j590be070v420472f319f06947@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <62b856460609141011s72e72eah70996448f74e7cd0@mail.gmail.com> <20060915101824.GB30999@gothmog.pc> <62b856460609150456j590be070v420472f319f06947@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2006-09-15 13:56, Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org> wrote:
>On 9/15/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>On 2006-09-14 19:11, Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org> wrote:
>>> I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs...
>>>
>>> I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server.  The "cvs clients" (for
>>> lack of a better term) are running 6.1 and should be configured the
>>> same.  Yet, one machine lets me do a cvs login, the other requires I
>>> use cvs -d :psserver:.. with each cvs command.
>>>
>>> I do not have CVSROOT set on either machine.
>>>
>>> What I get is this:
>>>
>>> [#822] cvs login
>>> Logging in to :pserver:myname@myserver/home/foo/bar
>>> cvs login: authorization failed: server myserver rejected access to
>>> /home/foo/bar for user mgrant
>>>
>>> yet, on the other machine, I get a password prompt and all is fine.
>>
>> Someone sets CVSROOT, if you can just type "cvs login" and get a prompt
>> for ``Logging in to :pserver:myname@myserver/home/foo/bar''.
>> 
>> Can you run, on both systems, the following?
>> 
>>     $ env | sort | grep CVS
>
> env | sort | grep CVS
> returns nothing.  There are no CVS* variables set!  Strange.  Where is
> it getting the cvsroot from?  Even if I remove the .cvspass file, it
> still uses the pserver line from before.  It's definitely getting
> cached somewhere.  greping the env for pserver shows nothing.

Do you have a local CVS/ subdirectory when you try "cvs login"?

If yes, what does it contain?




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