[cvsnt] Automatic Authentication with windows credentials

Peter Crowther Peter.Crowther at melandra.com
Wed Feb 16 09:08:49 GMT 2005


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> From: Brad Costa [mailto:bradcosta at optusnet.com.au] 
> For instance, on the windows clients I have set my CVSROOT environment
> variable to this:
> 	:sspi:cvserver:/project (project is the main repository 
> I am using)

Looks good.  This works, *without* login prompts, on our system, which
is Win2K server but otherwise very similar to yours.

> And when a workstation user (say joe) types in the "cvs 
> login" command his
> connection to the CVS server is established with the 
> following settings:
> 	:sspi:joe at cvserver:/project

If you're using SSPI you don't need to run cvs login - just set the
CVSROOT, go for it and everything works.  Try it and see whether this is
true in your environment.

		- Peter



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