On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:13:06PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > $ telnet 192.168.1.1 2401 > Trying 192.168.1.1... > Connected to 192.168.1.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > hello > cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start: hello > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > so it's apparently connecting, but not authenticating. (right?)
Looks right. > the <CVSROOT>/passwd file looks like > -rw-r--r-- 1 will Jul 10 00:27 CVSROOT/passwd > containing only > will:LQ8t.ApJDZE.g > > maybe somehow the cvs server side is looking in the wrong place > for the passwd file? > > if i just delete the CVSROOT/passwd file altogether should i be > able to get in scot-free? i still get 'connection refused' > regardless... Without a CVSROOT/passwd file *and* lack of direction in the CVSROOT/config file, my understanding is CVS falls back to authentication via "passwd". I just played with it without a CVSROOT/passwd file and was able to login, but with the passwd file, I couldn't authenticate ;(. My error messages seemed to be more explanatory (login failed). Sorry, can't be more help... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
