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(cvsbook.info)The pserver access method is STILL not working

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The pserver access method is STILL not working
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Okay, if the problem is not a missing `--allow-root', here are a few
other possibilities:

   * The user has no entry in the CVSROOT/passwd file, and the
     CVSROOT/config file has SystemAuth=no so CVS will not fall back on
     the system password file (or SystemAuth=yes, but the system
     password file has no entry for this user either).

   * The user has an entry in the CVSROOT/passwd file, but there is no
     user by that name on the system, and the CVSROOT/passwd entry does
     not map the user to any valid system username.

   * The password is wrong (but CVS is usually pretty good about
     informing the user of this, so that's probably not the answer).

   * Everything is set up correctly with the passwd files and in
     /etc/inetd.conf, but you forgot an entry like this in
     /etc/services:

          cvspserver      2401/tcp

     so inetd is not even listening on that port to pass connections
     off to CVS.