[cvsnt] Re: Help with Starting

AKM ariz at nospamarisetech.net
Sat Apr 19 09:19:11 BST 2003


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Thanks Bo, I'll try these steps and get back to you, I'll try the sspi
method first!

Ariz


"Bo Berglund" <bosse at agiusa.com> wrote in message
news:b7qvmh$g0e$1 at sisko.nodomain.org...
> Your setup is to say the least "unconventional"....
> I would really recommend that you change this setup so that the users are
> given proper workstation login names (different for each user). It is not
> such a big job given the low number of workstations you are managing. Just
> walk around to them and add one user login on each one (in user manager).
> Then also add the same users to the PC where the CVSNT server is located
> using the same passwords. If you like you can set the user names as the
> computers even though I would not do that myself.
>
> When this has been done you can use the sspi protocol which is the best
> one for internal Windows use. It really needs no additional steps because
> the user login will be the CVS identifier too.
>
> However,
> if you insist that you *must* use the Administrator login on all
> workstations (a very strange practice) then you are left with pserver
> only...
> In this case you must do the following:
>
> 1) On the CVSNT server PC you must create a new proper login account, call
> it CVSUser or some such thing. THis will be used as the account CVSNT uses
> for repository operations and must be a real existing NT account. Don't
> use Administrator here!!!!
>
> 2) Then you must use the cvs passwd command to add the "real" pserver
> users by this command (one for each one of your CVS users, example shows
> charlie):
> cvs passwd -a charlie -r CVSUser
> You will have to enter the password of each user, this is a CVS password
> only so you can invent whetever you like. You must be an administrator for
> CVS to do this so it is best done on the command prompt of the CVSNT
> server PC.
>
> 3) On your workstations the users must set up a CVSROOT connection string
> like this:
> :pserver:charlie at cvsserver:/repository
> How this is done varies depending on cvs client, for example on WinCvs 1.3
> there is a GUI dialog that splits the components of this into several
> entries.
>
> 4) Each user must log in using the command cvs login before he can check
> out a new module from the CVS server. Afterwards he is not needed to log
> in again if he just works in this module.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bo
>
>
> AKM wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > Sorry for my ignorance but I am completely new to CVS and Source
Control. I
> > have read the documentation but I am having trouble starting off, I'll
give
> > a brief description of my service.
>
> > I have around 5 NT/2000 workstations and one XP pro Workstation; my main
> > server for running the internet proxy server is on a Win 2000 server. We
are
> > not on any domain, we have our own workgroup and every machine belongs
to
> > the workgroup. All users log on as administrator and the method of
> > identification of the user is through PC name.
>
> > I have installed the CVS server onto one of the Win 2000 server
> > workstations, this is not the server that host's the proxy but just a
> > worstation used by a user. I have installed wincvs and tortoise on my XP
> > home PC.
>
> > Now how do I create users on the CVS server using sspi or ssh? There are
no
> > user names for logging on to the workgroup, just PC names, all users log
on
> > as admin. How do I create a repository and just basically how do I start
and
> > have 3 users use the repository.
>
> > I'm not getting much help from the docs for my kind of set-up. Should I
use
> > Pserver? I don't need to distribute my repository over the internet or
WAN.
>
> > Thanks so much in advance
> > Ariz
>
>




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