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Re: CVS Login problem



On Fri Apr 18, 2003 at 04:19:48PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I just recently (and finally) upgraded all of the packages along with
> the libc6 package. As far as I can tell, everything seems to be working
> just fine, except for my CVS. I checked and double checked the settings
> and nothing from what I can tell has been changed.
> 
> However, whenever I try to do anything (co, add, update, the works) I
> get the following error:
> 
> $ cvs co home
> Fatal error, aborting.
> 9`TKÿû,9`XKÿû$9`\Kÿû9``Kÿû9`dKÿû
>                                 9`hKÿû9`lKÿúüKÝ]?Kÿúô: no such user
> 
> I checked the passwd file in the CVSROOT and there were no changes made.
> Any ideas? I am using Debian Testing/Sarge.

A quick check in the cvs sources shows me that these errors are
produced in the server and the garbage between:

...., aborting.
XXXXXXXXXXX: no such user

should be the username which the server should try to authenticate.
Did you set the environment properly?

so long
Thomas

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