[ILUG] setting up anonymous CVS access ?

[Waider]

According to John P. Looney:
> 
> bartender [0]  cat passwd 
> anonymous::
> anon::
> 
> bartender [0]  cat readers 
> anonymous
> anon
> 

The readers file is optional, strictly speaking... these files are, I presume,
in /var/cvs/CVSROOT?

> bartender [0]  echo $CVSROOT 
> :pserver:anonymous at cvs:/var/cvs
> 
> bartender [0]  cvs login
> Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at cvs:2401/var/cvs
> CVS password: 
> Fatal error, aborting.
> anonymous: no such user
> 

No such user is, alas, a generic error message that can mean that something
else is wrong (much like out of memory on older Windows systems). I refer
the Honorable Gentleman to the following, in order to Help Himself:

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC180

and

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC30

In the latter, note specifically the bit about who the cvs stuff is run as.

> Kate

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