cvs pserver setup howto ?

[Dean Scarff]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 15:16:08 +0200, Albrecht Berger wrote:

I'm no cvs guru, but

> What are the steps that I need to do ?
>
> What I did is :
>  0.export CVSROOT=/cvsroot
>   1.  cvs init
>     2.  cvs checkout CVSROOT
>     3.  cvs commit CVSROOT
>     4.  mkpasswd.exe > CVSROOT/passwd

The passwd output from Cygwin's mkpasswd -l wouldn't really be useful for 
cvs auth.  See 
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.7/cvs_2.html#SEC30

You might also want to take note of their advice that "Unlike many of the 
files in `$CVSROOT/CVSROOT', it is normal to edit the `passwd' file 
in-place, rather than via CVS."  You can generate one with the aid of 
crypt.  You might also consider using the fallback system auth instead.

>     5.  cvs add CVSROOT/passwd
>     6.  cvs commit
>
> It all worked and now I have a repository at /cvsroot.
> To start the cvs in server mode I usw :
> cvs server
Shouldn't this be "cvs pserver" given:
> But if I try to login in an other cygwin-shell using :
> export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@localhost:/
> cvs login

Not using / as CVSROOT might be a good idea as well.

I don't know how eclipse wants to access your repository, but wouldn't it 
make more sense not to use a local pserver, and just let cvs operate 
directly on the fs (:local: and :fork: methods)?

Cheers,
Dean Scarff

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