[cvsnt] Re: CVS passwords on windows XP

Eugene Alute Mwendwa mwendwa at mitre.org
Fri Jan 7 21:16:01 GMT 2005


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I am also experiencing the same problem.  I followed the older install
instructions and still get the same error:
cvs [login aborted]: no such user <DOMAIN\USER> in CVSROOT/passwd

"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message
news:<5vott09mfkla16qfa52rmatss1d243sl4t at 4ax.com>...
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 04:34:41 -0800 (PST), Andre Selton
> <aselton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >  - Now I try to follow the FAQ on
> >(http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm),
> >in the answer to the question 'How do I set up
> >pserver?'.
> >
> >  - on the step 2 it says : "Create an empty file
> >.passwd in the directory referenced by the HOME
> >environment variable for the SYSTEM user (or the user
> >that runs he CVS service)". Well I do not have a HOME
> >enviroment variable set, so I set it to
> >c:\cvstest\home and create this empty .passwd file
> >there.
> 
> Don't do this. CVSNT does not use such a file.
> 
> >  - on the step 5 it says to create the passwd file in
> >the CVSROOT directory. So I create the
> >C:\cvstest\test\CVSROOT\passwd file.
> 
> Don't do this! CVSNT uses the cvs passwd command to manage the
> passwords for pserver.
>  
> >
> >  Any idea of how make this work ?
> >
> 
> Perhaps you can use this (a bit outdated) start guide:
> http://web.telia.com/~u86216121/InstallCVSNT.html
> or
> http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationTips
> 
> 
> 
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)






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