From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Eduardo Gomez Noguera Subject: questions on cvs pserver, hope its ok to ask here. Date: 03 Jun 2003 22:18:35 -0500 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1054696715.6585.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: davidgn@servidor.unam.mx Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org Hello. I am setting a cvs repository, but have some doubts about "anonymous" access. The system does not have any anonymous account and has the line anonymous: on the /usr/CVS/cvsroot/CVSROOT/password file, so this command goes ok cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@hostname:/usr/CVS/cvsroot login after that, this command goes wrong with a message of "no anonymous user" cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@hostname:/usr/CVS/cvsroot co "kernel device drivers" However, this turns out to be ok cvs -d:pserver:@hostname:/usr/CVS/cvsroot co "kernel device drivers" I think that problem would be fixed if I do either of a) create a system accout anonymous in /etc/passwd or b) chancge the passwd life to anonymous::some_existing_account The point is I dont want to asign a true username/system_account to anonymous cvs access. So what can I do? Is that just how CVS is and I just have to learn to live with that? may I have an old cvs system ? (its rh8's) or should I get my hands dirty and see what the problem with cvs's source code is? Thank you.