[cvsnt] Troubleshooting CVS login problems

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Tue Oct 17 07:24:19 BST 2006


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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:50:49 -0700, "Josh Larsen"
<funinvegas at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am running CVSNT 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2382
>I created a repository (F:/CVS/ejrepo).
>Accessing the repository localy (CVSROOT="f:\CVS\ejrepo") I was able
>to add a user and associate that user with my real account.  I double
>checked teh passwd file to make sure, it contains the line:
>scorch:[Passwordish letters here]:Josh
>
>
>But I am still not able to login using the pserver or any of the other
>plugin types I have tried so far.
>
>for example:
>cvs.exe -d ":pserver:scorch at 192.168.1.91:\CVS\ejrepo" login
>Outputs:
>Logging in to :pserver:scorch at 192.168.1.91:2401:\CVS\ejrepo
>CVS Password:
>cvs2 [login aborted]: Error reading from server 192.168.1.91: -1: Unknown error
>
>Another attempt:
>cvs -d ":sspi:scorch at 24.253.29.21:2401:f:\CVS\ejrepo" login
>Logging in to :sspi:scorch at 24.253.29.21:2401:f:\CVS\ejrepo
>CVS Password:
>Can't authenticate - server and client cannot agree on an
>authentication scheme(got '')
>
>I found a troubleshooting page that recomended running cvsservice.exe
>manually, here is the result of that:
>
>cvsservice.exe -test
>CVSNT 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2382 (Jul  5 2006) starting in test mode.
>TEMP/TMP currently set to F:\CVS\cvstemp
>Initialising socket...
>Starting auth server on port 2401/tcp...
>Couldn't register with active directory: Configuration information could not be
>read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or a
>ccess has been denied.
>CVSNT initialised successfully
>
>When I attempt to log in, the cvsservice.exe spits out this:
>055d36e8: Cvsnt process started
>055d36e8: Cvsnt process terminated
>
>Any idea what is wrong or how to get more information to debug this?
>
>Appricate it,
>Josh.

run cvsdiag and post the result.
(cvsdiag.exe is located in the cvsnt install dir and is a command line
program so it must be run from a command prompt).

HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)


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