[Cvsnt] The PWGEN.exe command line utility

Tony Hoyle tmh at nothing-on.tv
Sat Mar 2 09:35:23 GMT 2002


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Bo Berglund wrote:
> There is a catch-22 here! Unless you can log in to cvsnt you are
> unable to set any passwords. But in order to log in the first user in
> the passwd file must have a password entry recorded in the file. An
> empty password is not accepted.

By default SystemAuth=Yes, so you can log in with an administrator
username/password and set the passwords from there.

Empty passwords should work OK, I'll check that.

> I tried using ntserver as cvsroot but then when I used the cvs passwd
> command to add a user cvsnt complained about an invalid cvsroot. The
> only way I could find to use the cvs passwd command was using the
> pserver protocol. So how is the very first user created???

ntserver should work too...  The passwd command doesn't really care
about cvsroot.

Tony

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