[ILUG] setting up anonymous CVS access ?

[kevin lyda]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:43:42PM +0000, Waider wrote:
> According to John P. Looney:
> > bartender [0]  cat passwd 
> > anonymous::
> > anon::
> > bartender [0]  cat readers 
> > anonymous
> > anon
> > bartender [0]  echo $CVSROOT 
> > :pserver:anonymous at cvs:/var/cvs
> > 
> > bartender [0]  cvs login
> > Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs:2401/var/cvs
> > CVS password: 
> > Fatal error, aborting.
> > anonymous: no such user
> No such user is, alas, a generic error message that can mean that something
> else is wrong (much like out of memory on older Windows systems). I refer
> the Honorable Gentleman to the following, in order to Help Himself:

i'd guess that there's no user (aka in /etc/passwd) on bartender.
but beyond guessing i'd probably try to diagnose the problem by doing:

    # ps aux|grep inetd
    (note inetd/xinetd pid)
    # ltrace -f -o /tmp/argh -p <pid>
    (try connecting then press C-c, then read through /tmp/argh looking
     for str* functions and getpw* functions)

kevin

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