how to add user on CVS linux

[Rema Remulta]

Hi,
Been reading the manual of cvs (cvshome.org)but it doesn't mention there on how to add user specifically. Any ideas ? Do you know any other good links that provides a manual of cvs for a beginner (linux beginner too) ?
Thanks

[Anonymous]

Just add a normal linux/unix user to your CVS machine. He/Seh only
needs rights to write/read in the CVSROOT folder. I normally create a
group cvs where i put all these user.
You need no special CVS setup.

[Rema Remulta]

Yes, already done that but there's a problem when accessing them in the client box.
Here it is:
$ cvs -d server:[e-mail]:/repo/cvsroot login
& recv() from server genesis.our.com: connection reset by peer
any ideas?

[Anonymous]

it seems your inetd knows nothing about cvs. Connection reset by peer means no process was listening to the port.
Add the following lines to your conf files:
/etc/inetd.conf.
cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/cvs pserver
and
/etc/services should contain the line
cvspserver 2401/tcp
you can also check out this

[Andrew Monkhouse]

If you are running xinetd instead of inetd (you will have an /etc/xined.conf file instead of an /etc/inetd.conf file) you will need to create a file named /etc/xinetd.d/cvs that contains lines similar to:

# default: on
# description: remote CVS access
service cvspserver
{
 socket_type  = stream
 wait   = no
 user   = root
 server   = /usr/bin/cvs
 server_args  = --allow-root=/cvs pserver
 log_on_success  += DURATION USERID
 log_on_failure  += USERID
 disable   = no
}

(I think this is correct: I hobbled it together based on Oliver's inetd.conf line)
You will have to reload the inetd or xinetd systems in order for the new configuration to take effect. On RedHat Linux you can do this by typing (as root) <code>/etc/init.d/xinetd reload</code>. Or you could do it manually: <code>kill -HUP `ps -elf | awk '/[x]inetd/{print $4}'`</code>
Regards, Andrew

[Kent Emia]

is there a way to add only a cvs users not a system user? because i don't want everyone can login to our server here in our office... i just want them to be a pure cvs users?

[Anonymous]

give them no shell in you /etc/passwd. When someone logs then on he cannot do anything. (just enter /bin/xxxx)