[cvsnt] Re: Fwd: Problem aliasing to domain user, was Re: Error with 2.0.51a ends with "results may not be correct"

Fish fish at fish-mail.com
Fri Aug 6 17:34:50 BST 2004


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>Fish wrote:
>> That was it.  The directory above the cvs repository had no permissions for
>> the group in question... Thing is, it used to work fine in the older 
>version
>> we were running.
>
>It's a warning I added recently after some people reported problems that 
>  were down to these kind of permissions problems.
>
>> Now, I have a new problem.  Everything works fine for my domain users now,
>>  but I need to add access for some remote contractors.  So I set up a
>>  domain-level account, put it in the normal domain-level group that I gave
>>  access to, and try to alias the contractors to the real account.  I login,
>>  and then I try to cvs -d <repo stuff> -a -r <domain>\<realaccount> 
>testuser.
>>   I'm prompted for a password, and I give it one.  Now when I try to auth 
>as
>>  that user with pserver authentication, if I enter the correct password it
>>  tells me
>> <domain>\<realaccount> no such user.  If I give it the wrong password, it
>> tells me authorization failed, server rejected access.  So it's definitely
>> not a problem with being able to authenticate the garbage user, it just 
>can't
>> find the other account.  If I try to authenticate as the real user with 
>SSPI
>> it works fine.
>
>Try running with trace (cvs -t -t -t).  This may give more 
>information... it's possibly it can't work out the PDC for the domain or 
>something like that.
>
>Tony

The trace didn't give any useful additional info, just the same no such user 
in the end.

Any other ideas?  I really don't want to have to set up domain accounts for 
these users, but I will if I have to.

Fish



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