CVS Setup

install and setup pserver

# check installation and version
rpm -qa | grep cvs
cvs-1.11.1p1-7

# if you hadn't installed cvs or the right version. just install it, or upgrade it.
rpm -ivm cvs-1.11.1p1-7
rpm -Uvm cvs-1.11.1p1-7
rpm -Fvm cvs-1.11.1p1-7

# create user and group for cvsroot user
groupadd -g 502 cvsroot
useradd -u 502 cvsroot -g cvsroot -G cvsroot

# add cvspserver to xinetd.d
cat << EOF > /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver
service cvspserver
{
        disable = no
        flags = REUSE
        socket_type = stream
        wait = no
        user = root
        env = HOME=
        server = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args = -f --allow-root=/home/cvsroot --allow-root=/home/cvsroot0/1 pserver
        log_on_failure += USERID
}

setup password

# setup password
touch /home/cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd

# cvsuseradd.sh - the script for cvsuseradd
perl ./cvsuseradd.pl $1 >> passwd

# cvsuseradd.sh - the script for cvsuseradd
cvsuseradd.sh
perl ./cvsuseradd.pl $1 >> passwd

cvsuseradd.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

$username = $ARGV[0];
print "\n" . "$username:" . crypt("$username", "SB") . ":cvsroot";