Creating a Cvs Repository With Pserver Authentication

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Creating a cvs repository with pserver authentication

Step 1Decide a cvs repository location (I use /usr/local/cvsroot) and set your CVSROOT variable.

It is a good idea to set this in a bash startup file e.g. /etc/profile

export CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot

Step 2be root and create a group and add as much users as you require.

[root@hermes dev]#/usr/sbin/groupadd cvsgrp[root@hermes dev]#/usr/sbin/useradd -c "User Name" -g cvsgrp username[root@hermes dev]#passwd username

Step 3You have two options. You can move your existing repository from a windows cvs server or

you can create a new repository.

Step 3.1If your are moving an existing repository from a windows server set the file and directory

permissions Your repository (/usr/local/cvsroot) should look like this

total 1drwxrwxr-x 3 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:25 CVSROOTdrwxrwxr-x 3 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 project

and the files under project directory looks like this

total 16-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 book2menu.xsl,v-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 document2html.xsl,v-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 site2xhtml.xsl,v-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 tab2menu.xsl,vdrwxrwxr-x 2 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 test

This gives necessary information about the directory permissions. If you are moving your

files from a windows file system you need to set the permissions manually you can search

for directories by using the following command under CVSROOT

find . -type f | xargs ls -l

this will give you the files and its permissions. There is an example below

-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:55 ./project/file1,v-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:55 ./project/file2,v-r--r--r-- 1 cvs cvsgrp 2003-05-24 20:59 ./project/file3,v-r--r--r-- 1 cvs cvsgrp 2003-05-24 20:59 ./project/file4,v-r--r--r-- 1 cvs cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:33 ./project/file5,v-r--r--r-- 1 cvs cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:36 ./project/test/file1,v-r--r--r-- 1 cvs cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:36 ./project/test/file2,v-r--r--r-- 1 cvs cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:36 ./project/test/file3,v-r--r--r-- 1 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 21:57 ./project/test1/file1,v

so if your stucture doesnot look like the same you should change them appropriately but

there are some files under CVSROOT directory which has different permissions for that reas

cvs guide "http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC13"

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If your repository has different permissions use the following commands in order to set the

right permissions use

find . -type d | xargs chmod 775

to set the directory permissions and use

find . -type f | xargs chmod 444

to set the file permissions

Step 3.2If you are starting up a new project simply use the following to create a new repository from

scratch.

cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init

Step 4To inherit the parent directory permission to the newly created sub dirs use chmod g+s to set

the SGID bit of the directory. use the following command to set the SGUID bit of sub

directories

find . -type d | xargs chmod g+s

Step 5Make sure /etc/services contains the line

cvspserver 2401/tcp

Step 6Depending on your linux distribution you can may need to edit different configuration files.

If your system has /etc/inetd.conf edit that file add the following line (only one line) and

restart inetd by "killall -HUP inetd"

cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs--allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver

if you donot have /etc/inetd.conf this means that your linux distribution uses xinet.d create

/etc/xinet.d/cvspserver file and Inside that file paste the following and restart your xinetd:

service cvspserver{

disable = noprotocol = tcpsocket_type = streamwait = nouser = root

server = /usr/bin/cvsserver_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserverpassenv =groups = yes

}

Step 7If you skip or forget that step you get the following message

cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository /usr/local/cvsroot

In order to fix this problem edit CVSROOT/config and add the following

LockDir=/var/lock/cvs

create a cvs lock directory and set the permission of the directory, allow write access to the

group members

mkdir /var/lock/cvschgrp -R cvsgrp /var/lock/cvs


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chmod -R g+w /var/lock/cvs

Step 8To test, go to your home directory and enter:

cvs -d :pserver:cvs@tiger:/cvs logincvs -d :pserver:cvs@tiger:/cvs co .

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