[Techtalk] need help setting up cvs with tcpd and xinetd

[Chantal Rosmuller]

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can help me with this problem..
I'm setting up cvs pserver (a customer requested it so no I cannot use 
subversion ;-))
on a suse 8.2 server with xinetd and it works, so thats the good news,
the bad news: I want it to work with tcpd so I can make the setup more 
secure but when I try that I cannot login to the cvs server, and I get 
this in my /var/log/messages

Jun 23 10:28:07 servername tcpd[30218]: connect from 1.2.3.4 (1.2.3.4)
Jun 23 10:28:38 servername last message repeated 31711 times

This is my working /etc/xinetd.d/cvs without tcpd:

service cvspserver
{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = cvs
        group           = cvs
       server          = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args     = -f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
}

This is the "problem" /etc/xinetd.d/cvs

{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = cvs
        group           = cvs
        server          = /usr/sbin/tcpd
        server_args     = /usr/bin/cvs -f 
--allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot pserver
}

regards Chantal