[cvsnt] Re: sspi protocol

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Mon Jul 11 20:00:57 BST 2005


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ulrice jardin wrote:
> hi, 
> 
> I've just installed a cvsnt server in my windows xp
> system and I use tortoisecvs as the client on other
> computers. All the computers are in a local network.
> It seems that using the sspi protocol I can connect to
> the server using ANY username, while I created some to
> limit the access (using the cvs passw command). I set
> the SystemAuth to yes in the config file, and I don't
> understand why the access is not limited to the users
> I set in the passwd file.
> 
You're using XP Home I guess.

XP Home always accesses the system as Guest - it's not a server OS and 
is deliberately crippled to make running servers as difficult as 
possible.  You might be able to get some kind of better behaviour by 
disabling the guest account.

Tony



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