[Cvsnt] Installing CVSNT and making it work

Richie richard.bader at silogic.fr
Wed Mar 27 10:54:38 GMT 2002


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thanks a million for this procedure !

may i ask y a question ? is CVSWeb working with CVSNT and how ?

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"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> a écrit dans le message news:
3c946386.467705609 at news.cvsnt.org...
> I have received numerous emails privately and seen a number of
> postings complaining about the difficulty of getting the CVSNT system
> up and running.
> So today I have actually stepped through the process on a "naked" NT4
> WorkStation and noted the different steps needed.
>
> This procedure works to get CVSNT up and usable:
> Note: I don't have a domain, so the workstation used is belonging to a
> workgroup in a home LAN environment with 5 other machines of various
> systems (W98, NT4 WS, Win2000Pro, XP-Pro).
>
> Steps to take:
> 0. Make sure your system is only using NTFS file system! If not then
> convert using the NT tool for conversion.
> Also make sure you are logged on as an administrator of the PC (using
> an account with administrative priviliges).
>
> 1. Download the latest CVSNT installation from http://www.cvsnt.org/,
> currently 1.11.1.3 build 57a.
> (http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~tmhoyle/cvsnt_1.11.1.3.exe)
>
> 2. Create two directories on the target machine, c:\cvsrepo and
> c:\cvstemp. (If you have a separate disk partition to spare for CVS
> then use that instead, replace the paths below with these...)
>
> 3. Give c:\cvstemp security settings that allows full control for all
> accounts including SYSTEM.
>
> 4. Run the downloaded CVSNT setup file and make sure to change the
> installation path to c:\programs\cvsnt (I am paranoid about removing
> any spaces in paths used by cvs!)
>
> 5. Note that the installer probably complains about being unable to
> set the path environment variable at the end. So:
>
> 6. Open Control Panel/System and go to the Environment tab so you can
> set the *system* variable path. (Location of this setting page varies
> between NT4, W2000 and XP, you will have to look around a bit). Add
> ;c:\programs\cvsnt to the end of path and save it (Apply).
>
> 7. Now open the CVSNT control panel applet and do the following:
> 7a. Check that the service is not running (Start button is enabled).
> If it has started then stop it.
>
> 7b. On the tab "Repositories" check the box for prefix and enter the
> value c:/cvsrepo using the ellipsis button
>
> 7c. Use the Add button to add a repository. Enter TEST after the
> prefix in the box that appears. Accept the offer to create the
> repository.
>
> 7d. Go to the Advanced tab and check all checkboxes.
>
> 7e. Also set the temp dir using the ellipsis button. It should be set
> to c:\cvstemp
>
> 7f. Now click the Apply button! This is really important, nothing will
> happen unless you do this!
>
> 8. Go back to the first tab and click the Start button. After a few
> moments the Stop button will be highlighted. Now CVSNT runs.
> You might have trouble here (I did not check this) with the path
> variable change needing a reboot to register. (Check this by opening a
> command window and type path (enter). Look for c:\programs\cvsnt in
> the list that appears. If it is there you don't have to reboot...)
>
> 9. Open a command window and do the following (replace items <text>
> with the real values from your system):
> set cvsroot=:ntserver:<computername>:/TEST
> cvs passwd -a <your NT username>
> You will now be asked to enter a password for this user. If you intend
> this system to be used both with ntserver and pserver then add a
> password for CVS that is different from the real login password for
> this user (security reasons). Enter the same password twice.
> Now the CVSROOT/passwd file will be created and the user you entered
> will be added to the list in this file.
> This step is necessary even if you are going to only use the pserver
> protocol in the future since there is no way to log in with pserver
> unless there is a passwd file present with the user listed.
>
> Important note:
> Any user entered like this MUST be an NT user on the local system! CVS
> will not accept any user login that is not connected to a "real"
> account. But you can "alias" a CVS login to a "real" user by this
> command:
> cvs passwd -a -r <real accountname> <cvs account name>
> Note that this command will fail if there is a space embedded in the
> real account name! DON'T ever use spaces in these contexts!!!!!
> (But using quotes may solve the problem like this:
> cvs passwd -a -r "system admin" "new user"
> Since I don't have a valid user with embedded space I could not check
> the quotes trick with the valid user name parameter, but adding a CVS
> login with space embedded *can* be done with quotes.)
>
> The server is now ready to be used and you can check the pserver
> functionality by doing this:
>
> 10. Open another command window and type:
> set cvsroot=:pserver:<user>@<computername>:/TEST
> cvs login
> (enter password on prompt)
> cvs ls -l -R
> (this should give you a list of the files in TEST/CVSROOT)
>
> NOTE:
> Step 10 can be performed from another computer using WinCvs by setting
> the WinCvs preferences like this:
> Admin/Preferences/General:
> Authentication: pserver
> Path: /TEST
> Host address: <computername of server>
> User name: <the name you entered above>
>
> then
> Admin/Login (enter CVS password for this user)
>
> then in the command window in WinCvs:
> cvs ls -l -R
> should give you the same result as above.
>
> And as soon as you are logged on using pserver with a cvs login that
> either is the same as a local system admin or is aliased to an admin
> then you can also add and delete CVS user logins with the passwd
> command. Here is the full syntax for this command:
>
> Usage:
> cvs passwd [-a] [-x] [-X] [-r real_user] [-R] [-D domain] [username]
>   -a      Add user
>   -x      Disable user
>   -X      Delete user
>   -r      Alias username to real system user
>   -R      Remove alias to real system user
>   -D      Use domain password
>
> I hope this helps those of you who have complained that you could not
> get it to work.
>
> Also note that build 51 has a serious bug in the passwd command that
> actually mangles the file contents so it will be unusable. Therefore
> you MUST use the most recent version from CVSNT for the instructions
> above to work.
>
>
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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