[cvsnt] Re: 2.0.58 Run As Option

capaverde at 3ia.com.br capaverde at 3ia.com.br
Tue Oct 5 21:44:05 BST 2004


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Quoting Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>:

> capaverde at 3ia.com.br wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm having some troubles using CVSNT 2.0.58, that I just installed.
> > If I leave the new option, "Run as user" with the default value,
> > i.e. "(client user)", everything works fine.
> > If I select a local user, cvs client complains that the user doesn't
> > exists (I had selected it from the drop down list found in the CVS's
> > control panel applet and I'm sure, it's there).
> >
> > D:\Arquiv~1\GNU\WinCvs~1.3\Cvsnt>cvs95 -d :sspi:n992:/cvsroot ls
> > Fatal error, aborting.
> > CVS95 [ls aborted]: N992\cvs999: no such user
>
> The user is unknown to the system... cvs is just reporting the error
> that comes back.  It sounds like your domain is setup strangely - it's
> letting users who aren't a member of the domain connect via sspi or
> something... that's way beyond anything I can help with (my expertise in
> that stops at disabling simple file sharing and disabling guest).

The n992\cvs999 do exists:

C:\Documents and Settings\cvs999>whoami
n992\cvs999


>
> > If I select a domain user (my server is a win2003 server machine attached
> > to our enterprise network) the complaint is that the repository doesn't
> > exists (remember, I acessed it a few minutes ago when the "Run as user"
> > option was "(client user)").
> >
> > D:\Arquiv~1\GNU\WinCvs~1.3\Cvsnt>cvs95 -d :sspi:n992:/cvsroot ls
> > cvs [server aborted]: Repository directory E:/cvsroot does not exist:
> Permission
> > denied
>
> Is E: a network drive?  You can't put repositories on network drives -
> it'll fail in various ways and isn't supported.

Drive E: is a local partition. C: is system only.

>
> > [footnote: as our network have more than 2000 users, I needed to change
> > the user regedit'ing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CVS\Pserver;
> > the drop down list just shown the local users and a few domain ones]
>
> The list is every active user known to the system - if they aren't being
> shown then attempting to logon as them probably isn't going to work.

As I told, we have more than 2000 users logging in every day.
It seems to me that the listing is limited to 115 entries.

>
> > So, I have two questions:
> > 1. should the "run as" user be member of local administrators?
>
> Definately not - Use a nonpriviliged guest user (I probably shouldn't
> show administrators in the list at all).
>
> > 2. can't I use a local user for "run as"?
>
> Yes, this works fine.
>
> Tony
>

Capaverde




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