Install and configure CVS on Solaris 10

Download the appropriate binary from
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs

# create a "cvs" user. This user will be used to impersonate cvs' users

$ mkdir  /export/home/cvsroot
$ useradd -d /home/cvs -c "CVS Owner" cvs

# create the CVS repository

$ cvs -d /path_to_repository

#Add the following to /etc/services

cvspserver 2401/tcp # CVS Client/server operations
cvspserver 2401/udp # CVS Client/server operations

#Place this following line in a file called "cvs_inetd"

cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /path_to_cvs_executable -f \
--allow-root=/path_to_cvs_repository pserver

# import the service into smf

$ inetconv -f -i ./cvs_inetd
cvspserver -> /var/svc/manifest/network/cvspserver-tcp.xml
Importing cvspserver-tcp.xml …Done

#Add the following lines to /var/svc/profile/inetd_services.xml

<service name='network/cvspserver-tcp' version='1' type='service'>
<instance name='default' enabled='true'/>
</service>

#Restart the network

$ svcadm restart svc:/network/inetd:default

You're done. Your pserver should be listening on port 2401

#Script to create cvs users

#!/usr/bin/perl

$cvsroot="/path_to_cvs_root";

$user = shift @ARGV || die "cvspasswd user\n";
print "Enter password for $user: ";
system "stty -echo";
chomp ($plain = <>);
system "stty echo";
print "\n";
@chars = ('A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '0'..'9');
$salt = $chars[rand(@chars)] . $chars[rand(@chars)];
$passwd = crypt($plain, $salt);
open(PASSWD,">>$cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd") || die("Cannot Open File");
print PASSWD "$user:$passwd:cvs\n";
close PASSWD;
#-End

$ perl createcvspasswd.pl your_cvs_user