Re: setuid failed: Permission denied

[Larry Jones]

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