cvs question

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-09-15 20:05, Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3 at grant.org> wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> >The CVS server seems to be using some sort of CVS access control, i.e.
> >by a CVSROOT/readers or CVSROOT/writers file or something similar.
> 
> I didn't set anything like that up.  I simply added this line to
> /etc/inetd.conf:
> 
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait   root /usr/bin/cvs cvs
> --allow-root=/home/ng/tools/cvsroot --allow-root=/home/somewhere/else
> pserver
> 
> >I am not sure of all the gory details about your particular setup, but
> >the message seems to imply that `mgrant' is blocked by the access
> >controls of the server itself.
> 
> It sure seems that way.  Or it seems that somehow it's proposing the
> wrong password.  Hmm, now, here's something funny, the password in
> CVSROOT/Root is all lower case and my password is mixed case.

Try removing the relevant line from your ``~/.cvspass'', if there is
one.  I think what's happening is that a cached copy of the password is
used from that file, and that copy is out of date.