[cvsnt] Windows Server 2003 service pack 1 install broke my cvsnt

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Fri Jul 29 21:06:16 BST 2005


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David L. Nadle wrote:
> Could you elaborate a bit on what would cause the error message:
> Cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server <server> rejected
> access to /cvsroot for user <user>.

Pretty much anything that rejects login...  the client doesn't get to 
know why the access got rejected.

> Sounds to me like it could be a problem with SSPI authentication.
> Running a cvs login with the cvs root string of
> :sspi:Administrator at hostname:/cvsroot returns the same error. I've been
> focusing on what changes SP1 might have made in this area, but it would
> be helpful if I knew a little more about what cvsnt does, up until
> writing that error message to the console.

Since it's SSPI the standard security auditing will give more 
information server side.  cvsnt itself doesn't know necessarily why the 
login failed.

Tony



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