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Authored by: ajbert on Nov 18, '02 11:37:51PM
I followed the instructions above, and have been denied all day long by my own server with the message
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server 127.0.0.1 rejected access

I couldn't work out what the problem was and then, for a giggle, I tried removing the quote marks from the line of the server_args line of the config file, and suddenly I was able to log in. Amazing.

Originally I had:
server_args = -f --allow-root="/usr/local/CVS" pserver
(which doesn't work)

So I changed it to:
server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/CVS pserver
(and now I have a CVS server)

So technically the instructions above are correct, but I think it would be more obvious if either the quote marks were not there at all, or if the instructions said "remove the quote marks".

Also, you probably noticed, there is a typo at the start of the instructions, /ete/ should be /etc/

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Having Authentication problems?
Authored by: calroth on Nov 19, '02 08:11:38AM

Hey, this works! Thanks a million.



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