[cvsnt] Re: Fwd: Problem aliasing to domain user, was Re: Error with 2.0.51a ends with "results may not be correct"

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Aug 6 16:35:54 BST 2004


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Fish wrote:
> That was it.  The directory above the cvs repository had no permissions for
> the group in question... Thing is, it used to work fine in the older version
> we were running.

It's a warning I added recently after some people reported problems that 
  were down to these kind of permissions problems.

> Now, I have a new problem.  Everything works fine for my domain users now,
>  but I need to add access for some remote contractors.  So I set up a
>  domain-level account, put it in the normal domain-level group that I gave
>  access to, and try to alias the contractors to the real account.  I login,
>  and then I try to cvs -d <repo stuff> -a -r <domain>\<realaccount> testuser.
>   I'm prompted for a password, and I give it one.  Now when I try to auth as
>  that user with pserver authentication, if I enter the correct password it
>  tells me
> <domain>\<realaccount> no such user.  If I give it the wrong password, it
> tells me authorization failed, server rejected access.  So it's definitely
> not a problem with being able to authenticate the garbage user, it just can't
> find the other account.  If I try to authenticate as the real user with SSPI
> it works fine.

Try running with trace (cvs -t -t -t).  This may give more 
information... it's possibly it can't work out the PDC for the domain or 
something like that.

Tony



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