[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Wed Sep 8 12:47:18 EDT 2004


I didn't either.  I'm going on what I've been told by my (technically 
savvy) manager (someone else set up the installation).

since apparently pserver isn't what I'm looking for, I'm back to the user 
manuals.

William

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tom Bryan wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 12:35 pm, William Sutton wrote:
> > I won't be able to do the ssh -l because I don't have an acct on that
> > system....theoretically the cvs installation is configured to go against
> > the new ldap system....
> 
> Oh.  Neat.  I didn't know it could do that.  Um...can it do that?
> 
> The pserver option implies that you've already set up CVSROOT/pserver.  
> 
> >From the red-bean link I keep sending:
> "The CVS password file is CVSROOT/passwd in the repository. It was not created 
> by default when you ran cvs init, because CVS doesn't know for sure that 
> you'll be using pserver. Even if the password file had been created, CVS 
> would have no way of knowing what usernames and passwords to create. So, 
> you'll have to create one yourself;"
> 
> ---Tom
> 
> 




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