Re: CVS remote log in.

[Larry Jones]

Hon Seng Phuah writes:
> 
> I read the Open Source Development with CVS document on the web and
> have a doubt. On the Password-Authentication Server section, it has
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs \
>    --allow-root=/usr/local/newrepos pserver
> 
> and
> 
> remote$ cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/newrepos
> login
> 
> Is the path, /usr/local/newrepos, referring to the CVS repository
> directory?

Yes.  What the client specifies must exactly match one of the
--allow-root options given to the server in the inetd.conf file.

-Larry Jones

Mom must've put my cape in the wrong drawer. -- Calvin