Topic: CVS pserver access to my e-smith gateway

[Johan Van den Brande]

Hi,

I installed cvs on my e-smith machine. I wish to access the
e-smith gateway from the outside to access my CVS repository.

I have created next ipchain entries, and they seem to work
/sbin/ipchains --append input -p tcp -s 0/0 -d $OUTERNET 2401 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/ipchains --append output ! -y -p tcp -d 0/0 -s $OUTERNET 2401 -j ACCEPT

Now, I've updated xinetd.conf ( also via the templates ) and the cvs part is:
service cvspserver
{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args     = -f --allow-root=/home/e-smith/files/ibays/cvsroot/files pserver
        disable         = no
}  

When I telnet to the gateway
>telnet 10.0.0.1 2401
Trying 10.0.0.1...
Connected to 10.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.


I do not get the CVS response ( like in the sourceforge example )
>telnet cvs.sourceforge.net 2401

Trying 216.136.171.202...
Connected to cvs.sourceforge.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start:

Connection closed by foreign host.



So, I do not get the remote pserver access working ...
Can somebody please help?
thanks!!
Johan

[Bart]

Hi Johan,

You probably also have to change the (templates for) the tcpwrapper-file  /etc/hosts.allow
Otherwise access is still blocked at that level.

Hope this helps....
 Bart