» Creating a cvs repository with pserver authentication
 Step 1
Decide 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
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Step 2
be 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
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Step 3
You have two options. You can move your existing repository
from a windows cvs server or you can create a new
repository.
Step 3.1
If 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 1
drwxrwxr-x 3 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:25 CVSROOT
drwxrwxr-x 3 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 project
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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,v
drwxrwxr-x 2 kguclu cvsgrp 2003-05-24 19:27 test
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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
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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
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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"
If your repository has different permissions
use the following commands in order to set the right permissions use
find . -type d | xargs chmod 775
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to set the directory permissions and use
find . -type f | xargs chmod 444
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to set the file permissions
Step 3.2
If you are starting up a new project simply use the following
to create a new repository from scratch.
cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init
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Step 4
To 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
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Step 5
Make sure /etc/services contains the line
Step 6
Depending 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
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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 = no
protocol = tcp
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/cvs
server_args = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
passenv =
groups = yes
}
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Step 7
If you skip or forget that step you get the following message
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository /usr/local/cvsroot
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In order to fix this problem edit CVSROOT/config and add the following
create a cvs lock directory and set the permission of the
directory, allow write access to the group members
mkdir /var/lock/cvs
chgrp -R cvsgrp /var/lock/cvs
chmod -R g+w /var/lock/cvs
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Step 8
To test, go to your home directory and enter:
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@tiger:/cvs login
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@tiger:/cvs co .
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