[cvsnt] Troubleshooting CVS login problems

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Tue Oct 17 16:28:18 BST 2006


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Josh Larsen 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

The \CVS\ejrepo bit  looks wrong... when you configure cvsnt you normally
set up an alias to the actual path (using the cvsnt control panel).

> 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

Its probably throwing back an error message but the client is a tad
confused.

Try adding -ttt to the command line and see if anything useful appears in
the diags.

> 
> 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

You're not doing something silly like running cvsnt on XP Home are you?

-- 
David Somers
typographer/programmer/whatever


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