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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:18:30 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Fw: cvs
Message-ID:  <20030129031830.GE660@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <OE45ZStgLzhVOJwnzsL00000de1@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE45ZStgLzhVOJwnzsL00000de1@hotmail.com>

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On 2003-01-28 14:17, Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brian Henning wrote:
>> I am setting up a cvs server on my bsd box. So far i have
>> enabled pserver in my /etc/initd.conf file. I have added a
>> user called 'cvsuser' i have created a repository in
>> /home/cvsroot i have pointed my CVSROOT variable to that
>> cvsroot directory. when i enter the command
>> cvs -d :pserver:cvsuser@localhost:/home/cvsroot login
>> i can't get logged in because i don't have a password set in
>> my passwd file.  i created an empty one '/home/cvsroot/passwd'
>> but, i don't know howto add users to it [...]
>
> Where can i find the passwd file that i should use? I assume that
> you are talking about the shadowed password file.

Nope.  CVS doesn't use the system password database in :pserver: mode.
For more details, you can always refer to

	% info '(cvs)'

You will have to create the /home/cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd file yourself.

- Giorgos


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