Having a permissions problem with cvspserver in cvs 1.12.12

[Corey Ashford]

Hi,

I've been using CVS for a few months, and never as an administrator 
until the last couple of days.

I'm running into a problem with setting up pserver access to a simple 
repository on a PowerPC-based SLES 10 machine.  I have no problems 
getting the pserver setup to work on other machines and cvs variants, so 
I suspect there's a configuration problem somewhere that's keeping me 
from running correctly on the above configuration.

My repository is in /home/corey/cvsroot on which I have run "cvs init". 
The permissions on the repository directory are:

drwxrwxrwx 5 corey users 184 2006-10-13 16:58 /home/corey/cvsroot/

My xinetd.d/cvs file looks like this:

service cvspserver
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args     = -f --allow-root=/home/corey/cvsroot pserver
}

and the output of "netstat -l | grep cvs" tells me that cvspserver is 
running:

tcp 0  0 *:cvspserver            *:*                      LISTEN

In my workspace, /home/corey/cvstest_pserver, I do the following commands:

elm3b18:corey-1238% setenv CVSROOT 
:pserver:address@hidden:/home/corey/cvsroot

elm3b18:corey-1239% cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/home/corey/cvsroot
CVS password:

elm3v18:corey-1240% cvs checkout CVSROOT
cvs [checkout aborted]: could not get working directory: Permission denied

If I add the trace (-t) switch, I get the following

elm3b18:corey-1241% cvs -t checkout CVSROOT
  -> main: Session ID is b424530052e4567
  -> main loop with CVSROOT=/home/corey/cvsroot
  -> safe_location( where=(null) )
  -> open_connection_to_server (:pserver:address@hidden:/home/corey/cvsroot)
  -> Connecting to elm3b18(127.0.0.2):2401.
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> serve_directory (.)' 
from cvs server
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> dirswitch (., 
/home/corey/cvsroot/)' from cvs server
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> my_module (CVSROOT, 
Updating, NULL, NULL)' from cvs server
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> serve_directory (.)' 
from cvs server
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> dirswitch (., 
/home/corey/cvsroot/)' from cvs server
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> do_cvs_command 
(checkout)' from cvs server
cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> server_notify()' from 
cvs server
cvs [checkout aborted]: could not get working directory: Permission denied
S -> safe_location( where=(null) )
S -> Lock_Cleanup()
S -> Simple_Lock_Cleanup()
S -> server_cleanup()
  -> close_connection_to_server ()


I'm hoping one of you recognizes this behavior and has some ideas as to 
what I might have done wrong.

I have repeated the above experiments on older OSes also running 
PowerPC, and the same OS with x86, and it does not reproduce.  I am 
seeing this only with cvs 1.12.12 on SLES 10 / and RHEL 5 beta 1 on PowerPC.

If I use a repository on an SLES 10 x86 machine (also running cvs 
1.12.12), and access it from the PowerPC machine, it works fine.

Also, I should note that both local and rsh/ssh access to the repository 
work fine too.

Unfortunately, using local or rsh/ssh is not an option, because I am 
running some Eclipse tests that are verifying that :pserver: access to 
repositories works correctly.

My guess is either that this is a configuration problem somehow, or that 
there is a problem with the PowerPC build of cvspserver on these OSes.

Thanks for your consideration,

- Corey


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Corey Ashford
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain
Beaverton, OR
503-578-3507
address@hidden