Re: [Newbie question] When LOGIN fails

[Derek R. Price]

"David A. Cobb" wrote:

> Today I was working with a repository at the other end of an SSH tunnel.
>
> My CVS LOGIN was rejected: "server denied access to ${CVSROOT}"
>
> However, while experimenting with Xemacs/PCL-CVS I requested to STATUS,
> and then to UPDATE my directories.  Both functions apparently worked.
>
> Does this indicate that the login only applies to a comit?
> Is this by design, or is it a big security hole?

No.  You were most likely using different logins/passwords/roots somehow for the
different cases you describe above.

Derek

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