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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:35:23 +0000 (UTC), Tony Hoyle <tmh at nothing-on.tv> wrote: >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 Does not work, here is a sample session from the command line using the very latest version of cvsnt (updated my checkout and built it 6 hours ago): C:\>set cvsroot=:ntserver:armadillo:/pc C:\>cvs passwd -a kalleanka cvs passwd: CVSROOT ":ntserver:armadillo:/pc" is not fully-qualified. cvs [passwd aborted]: Please make sure to specify "user at host"! C:\>set cvsroot=:ntserver:bosse at armadillo:/pc C:\>cvs passwd -a kalleanka cvs passwd: The protocol always used the current user. Do not specify a username. cvs passwd: bad CVSROOT: :ntserver:bosse at armadillo:/pc cvs [passwd aborted]: Bad CVSROOT. C:\> I can't get around this at all. In my passwd file is a single name, my own login 'bosse' without any password part. Still looks like a catch-22 to me.... Bo Berglund bo.berglund at system3r.se _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs