[m-dev.] Re: Access to the repository for Mercury tutorial

[Fergus Henderson]

On 18-Feb-1999, Ralph Becket <rwab1 at cam.sri.com> wrote:
> Peter Ross wrote on 17 Feb:
> > 
> > Set the following environment variable
> > setenv  CVSROOT :pserver:rwab1 at hydra.cs.mu.oz.au:/home/mercury1/repository/
> > 
> > if the above doesn't work then s/hydra/mercury/
> 
> Yep, have to make the substitution and today it lets me login.
> However, it then complains that it doesn't know me:
> 
> $ cvs login
> (Logging in to rwab1 at mercury.cs.mu.oz.au)
> CVS password: 
> $ cvs co tutorial
> Fatal error, aborting.
> rwab1: no such user
> 
> Haylp!

Try again now.

Pete added an entry for you in the cvs passwd file, but didn't
create an account for you on those machines.  What I've done
is to append ":cvsuser" to your entry in the cvs passwd file,
so that it will use the "cvsuser" account rather than trying
to use the non-existent "rwab1" account.

BTW, can anyone explain why the `cvsuser' user on mercury and hydra
had a password and was user id 0 (root) and group 0?  I changed that
to a new uid and group mercury, with a locked password.

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