[cvsnt] RE: adding users problem

Richard Lovell Richard.Lovell at terralink.co.nz
Tue Aug 12 02:44:55 BST 2003


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Hi all,

It appeared that my dumbarse mistakes included having the "impersonation
enabled" and "local servers for pserver auth" enabled. Unchecking those
seemed to work a treat. Doh!

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Richard  Lovell  
> Sent:	Tuesday, 12 August 2003 1:04 p.m.
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> Subject:	adding users problem
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> 
> We're investigating cvsnt after being told to shift away from a Solaris
> box cvs setup. The intended connection protocols are pserver because my
> cvs front end (jCVS) doesn't support sspi, but also because we'll have
> Linux boxes accessing the repository.  Setup is cvsnt 2.0.8 on WinXP Pro. 
> 
> All installation is done under a domain login with full administrator
> rights. The install goes fine, but I'm having problems adding users.
> 
> I can set cvsroot with:
> set CVSROOT=:sspi:rictor:/TEST
> 
> and subsequently login successfully, which yield my system user name:
> H:\>cvs login
> Logging in to :sspi:RLovell at rictor:2401:/TEST
> CVS password: ********
> 
> but whenever I try to add a user, add a domain user or alias a user I get
> problems:
> H:\>cvs passwd -a -r RLovell rlovell
> Adding user rlovell at rictor
> New password: ****
> Verify password: ****
> cvs [server aborted]: User 'RLovell' is not a real user on the system.
> 
> so I try adding my domain login as a cvs user:
> H:\>cvs passwd -a -D domain_name\RLovell RLovell
> Adding user RLovell at rictor
> cvs server: *WARNING* CVS user 'RLovell' will not be able to log in until
> they a
> re aliased to a valid system user.
> 
> then I try setting the alias:
> H:\>cvs passwd -a -r RLovell rlovell
> Adding user rlovell at rictor
> New password: ****
> Verify password: ****
> cvs [server aborted]: User 'RLovell' is not a real user on the system.
> 
> so I try aliasing the domain user:
> H:\>cvs passwd -a -r domain_name\RLovell rlovell
> Adding user rlovell at rictor
> New password: ****
> Verify password: ****
> error 0 Invalid username - cannot specify domain as server is not acting
> as a do
> main member
> cvs [server aborted]: User 'domain_name\RLovell' is not a real user on the
> system.
> 
> I really would like to get this set up for the team but seem to be making
> a few dumbarse mistakes. Can anybody point them out?
> 
> regards
> Richard Lovell


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