set up a cvs server

After following the good documentation on:

http://linux-addiction.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-set-up-cvs-server.html

at 14) I got the following error:

cvs@sles:~> cvs -d ":pserver:testuser@localhost:/var/cvs/test" login
Logging in to :pserver:testuser@localhost:2401/var/cvs/test
CVS password:
cvs login: warning: failed to open /var/cvs/.cvspass for reading: No such file or directory


Could be easily resolved with:

touch /var/cvs/.cvspass

Next time I was able to login as described, "no error messages".