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I spent a little time yesterday looking for information on how to set up a CVS pserver in Hardy. Whilst I did find some useful information, ultimately I had to set it up with the exclusive help of the CVS manual. In Debian distros there is a package called cvs and another called cvsd. Now having never used CVS before, I assumed that one was a client and the other a server. How very, very wrong!

By reading the manual, it was clear that CVS can run in server mode – also known as pserver, but it is a single binary. After spending some time browsing the Internet, I understood that cvsd is simply a chroot wrapper to cvs which attempts to overcome the security flaws in CVS.

This is the process I took to installing a working pserver: Read more »