From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 7: 0: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CE6037B400 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 06:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21542 invoked from network); 30 May 2002 13:59:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 30 May 2002 13:59:08 -0000 Received: (from roman@localhost) by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4UE0HM02888 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:00:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: freepuppy.bellavista.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@bellavista.cz using -f Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:00:17 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Subject: cvs repo owned by a nonroot user Message-ID: <20020530140017.GD20796@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I have a problem setting up cvs repo (pserver). I want the server to run as a non-root user. However, as soon as I change the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf (:s/root/cvs/), I can't login: roman@freepuppy ~ > cvs -d:pserver:roman@freepuppy:/home/cvs login Logging in to :pserver:roman@freepuppy:2401/home/cvs CVS password: cvs login: authorization failed: server freepuppy rejected access to /home/cvs for user roman roman@freepuppy ~ > ls -ld /home/cvs drwxrwxr-x 3 cvs cvs 512 Apr 28 22:21 /home/cvs roman@freepuppy ~ > grep cvs /etc/passwd cvs:*:666:666:CVS server:/home/cvs:/sbin/nologin roman@freepuppy ~ > grep /home/cvs /etc/inetd.conf cvspserver stream tcp nowait cvs /usr/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/home/cvs pserver If cvs runs as root, I can log in, and checkout. What am I doing wrong? -- FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 1:07PM up 2 days, 3:02, 14 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message