Creating a remote repository

To set up a repository on remote machine create the repository directory and initialize it:

mkdir /home/cvs
cvs -d /home/cvs init

and add the following line to /etc/inet/inetd.conf:

cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/cvs cvsv --allow-root=/home/cvs pserver

Next we need to set up the CVS password file:

echo ``remoteuser:cryptpass:localuser'' >>/home/cvs/CVSROOT/passwd

You can use cryptit to encrypt a password:

cryptit nameofdog
 ==> Encrypted version of nameofdog = F3D4D74323E2A1

There are various front-end programs for working with CVS. The most popular one is called Cervisia [12].