Okay, just looked up some more infos. Seems there's a cvspserver wrapper in Debian already (a Bourne script) in /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver.
So, then regular /etc/inetd.conf has something like: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver It looks at /etc/cvs-pserver.conf for a colon separted list of repositories, building up the "--allow-root" argument and finally exec'ing "/usr/bin/cvs ...". Somehow, that seemed to work okay with a /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/password file containing an entry like: anonymous: And, the /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/config file has system authentication turned off. I think the key to the shell script working is the directive: unset HOME I think cvs looks at the $HOME variable, which will be /root and it gets confused. There's some mention of this in the docs and in /usr/share/doc/cvs/README.Debian. My understanding is, you probably want to be using ssh and :ext: method rather than the ":pserver:" method for read/write repositories. But, I guess, that configuration is a little different. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
