Re: unreconised authorisation error

[David Fuller]

I'm quite certain that it isn't the length of the line.  I have  a
server running with 5 '--allow-root=...' statements.  Pretty long line.

My first guess would be that the client program is out of step with the
server program.  Remember, if you are going to patch the server then the
client will probably need the patch too.

-- David F.

mm rao wrote:
> 
> Any idea on the the max allowed length of this line?
> --- Larry Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> > mm rao writes:
> > >
> > > Any thing to do with -P? What actually this is
> > for?
> >
> > I haven't a clue -- standard CVS doesn't have either
> > -L or -P so I
> > presume they have something to do with the patch you
> > applied.
> >
> > > Or any other guesses? Do I need to install
> > seperate
> > > RCS ( I am using cvs-1.11)?
> >
> > No, the RCS functionality has been built-in to CVS
> > for quite some time
> > now.  You're not getting an invalid option or
> > unknown command message,
> > so the problem appears to be that CVS simply isn't
> > seeing the "pserver"
> > at the end of the command line for some reason.  Do
> > you have an
> > unpatched version of CVS 1.11 that you could try to
> > see if the problem
> > is related to the patch or not?
> >
> > -Larry Jones
> >
> > Yep, we'd probably be dead by now if it wasn't for
> > Twinkies. -- Calvin