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Re: setuid failed: Permission denied
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: setuid failed: Permission denied |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:53:52 -0500 (EST) |
Lu Fang writes:
>
> address@hidden ~
> $ cvs co CVSROOT
> setuid failed: Permission denied
> cvs checkout: authorization failed: server kaguya rejected access to
> /home/lufan
> g/repo for user cvsuser
It's not clear whether your server is on a NT machine or a Unix-like
machine. On Unix-like machines, you have to run the server as root
(from [x]inetd) so that it can switch to whatever user logs in. The
"setuid failed" message indicates that the server wasn't able to change
user.
-Larry Jones
If I was being raised in a better environment, I wouldn't
do things like that. -- Calvin