How to configure CVS

Steps:

1. install cvs and xinetd on the server

$yum install cvs
$yum install xinetd

NOTE: check whether cvs (or xinetd) has been installed:
$rpm -qa | grep cvs

create your CVS home repository:
mkdir /var/local/cvshome

add it as CVSROOT and export to profile
vim /etc/profile


##add line 
export CVSROOT=/var/local/cvshome

2. set up cvs group and user on the server:

$groupadd cvsusers
$useradd -g cvsusers -G cvsusers -d /var/local/cvshome cvsadmin
$passwd cvsadmin   # set up password for cvsadmin

Add harun to the cvs group:
$usermod -G harun cvsusers

Check whether harun is in the cvs group:
$groups harun

3. change owner of /home/cvsroot if necessary, chmod for /home/cvsroot:

$chown -R cvsadmin:cvsusers /var/local/cvshome
$chmod -R 775  /var/local/cvshome

4. initialize cvs:

(login as cvsroot)
$cd  /var/local/cvshome
$cvs -d  /var/local/cvshome init  # full path is required
$chmod 644  /var/local/cvshome/CVSROOT/config

5. create file for CVS self-startup, as xinetd type

(login as root)
$cd /etc/xinetd.d
$cp cvs cvspserver
$vim cvspserver  # do the following modifications:

# default: off
# description: The CVS service can record the history of your source \
#              files. CVS stores all the versions of a file in a single \
#              file in a clever way that only stores the differences \
#              between versions.
service cvspserver
{
disable                 = no             # modify
port                       = 2401
socket_type       = stream
protocol               = tcp
wait                       = no
user                       = root
passenv               = PATH
server                   = /usr/bin/cvs
env                         = HOME= /var/local/cvshome    # modify
server_args        = -f –allow-root= /var/local/cvshome pserver    # modify
}

If you want to create multiple repository, add an additional --allow-root=[repository path] argument for each repository.

6. add CVS as a service:

$vim /etc/services

Add two lines if not in the file:
cvspserver 2401/tcp #pserver cvs service
cvspserver 2401/udp #pserver cvs service

7. restart xinetd:

$/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

8. check if cvspserver has started

$netstat -anlp |grep cvspserver

should return:
tcp   0    0            *:cvspserver           *:*               LISTEN

9. manage users (Optional)

$cp /etc/shadow /home/cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd   # owner of passwd should be cvsroot:cvs
($cd /home/cvsroot/CVSROOT)
$chmod 644 passwd

modify passwd, delete all lines except users cvsroot and mike (you can keep some lines if needed)
for every line, delete all the content after the second “:”, and append cvsroot to that “:”

10. on client c.com, log in to the CVS server:

$export CVSROOT=:pserver:harun@s.com:2401/var/local/cvshome
$cvs login

11. on client c.com, import a project /home/mike/myproject onto CVS server:

$cd /home/harun/myproject
$cvs import -m “my project” myproject harun start

12. errors:

1) As follows:
[mike@c.com ~]$ cvs -d :pserver:mike@s.com:/home/cvsroot login
Logging in to :pserver:mike@s.com:2401/home/cvsroot
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from localhost: cvs pserver: cannot open /home/cvsroot/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied

Solution: turn off SELinux on s.com.
Turn it off now:
$setenforce 0

Turn it off after next restart:
$vim /etc/selinux/config
modify SELINUX=enforcing to
SELINUX=disabled

//Or can be another solution

1. At this point, CVS has been configured but SELinux will still deny logins and file access. To demonstrate this, set the $CVSROOT variable on cvs-client and try to log in remotely. The following step should be performed on cvs-client:

   [cvsuser@cvs-client]$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsuser@192.168.1.1:/cvs
   [cvsuser@cvs-client]$
   [cvsuser@cvs-client]$ cvs login
   Logging in to :pserver:cvsuser@192.168.1.1:2401/cvs
   CVS password: ********
   cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from 192.168.100.1: cvs pserver: cannot open /cvs/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
   

   SELinux has blocked access. In order to get SELinux to allow this access, the following step should be performed on cvs-srv:
2. Change the context of the /cvs/ directory as the root user in order to recursively label any existing and new data in the /cvs/ directory, giving it the cvs_data_t type:

   [root@cvs-srv]# semanage fcontext -a -t cvs_data_t '/cvs(/.*)?'
   [root@cvs-srv]# restorecon -R -v /cvs

2) As follows:
[mike@c.com ~]$ cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:mike@s.com:2401/home/cvsroot
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: connect to [s.com]:2401 failed: No route to host

Solution: turn off firewall on s.com, or allow 2401 port in the firewall
Turn off firewall now:
service iptables stop

Turn off firewall after next restart:
$chkconfig iptables off   # or $/sbin/chkconfig –level 2345 iptables off

Check firewall status:
$/etc/init.d/iptables status