How to create a cvs repository with pserver authentication
Below 6 step tutorial to create a CVS repository
and adding pserver authentication.
Step1.
Decide a cvs repository location e.g. “/usr/local/cvsroot” and
set your CVSROOT variable. It is a good idea to
set this in a bash startup file e.g. /etc/profile
export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot
Step 2
With root user, create a group and add any nuber of users.
[root@server ~]#/usr/sbin/groupadd cvsgrp
[root@server ~]#/usr/sbin/useradd -c “username” -g cvsgrp username
[root@hermes dev]#passwd username
Step 3
To start a new project simply use the following to create a new repository.
cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init
Step 4
To inherit the parent directory permission to the newly created
subdirs use chmod g+s to set the SGID bit of the directory.
Use the following command to set the SGUID bit of sub directories
find . -type d | xargs chmod g+s
Step 5
Make sure /etc/services contains the line
cvspserver 2401/tcp
Step 6
Edit /etc/inetd.conf file and add the following line
and restart inetd by “killall -HUP inetd”
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs
–allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
if you donot have /etc/inetd.conf
this means that your linux distribution uses xinet.d
create /etc/xinet.d/cvspserver file
and Inside that file paste the following and restart your xinetd:
service cvspserver
{
disable = no
protocol = tcp
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/cvs
server_args = -f –allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
passenv =
groups = yes
}
Step 7
If you skip or forget that step you get the following message
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository /usr/local/cvsroot
In order to fix this problem edit CVSROOT/config and add the following
LockDir=/var/lock/cvs
create a cvs lock directory and set the permission of the directory,
allow write access to the group members
mkdir /var/lock/cvs
chgrp -R cvsgrp /var/lock/cvs
chmod -R g+w /var/lock/cvs
