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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:09:44 -0700, "David Jackman" <David.Jackman at fastsearch.com> wrote: >As I've continued to search, I've found others asking essentially the >same question and also getting no solutions. In my case, after playing >with it a bit, it seems the pserver protocol doesn't want to work at >all. > >I'm following the advice given on >http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/InstallCVSNT25.html and using the sspi >protocol to add users. I've added regular users and alias users in >addition to domain users (which is what I want to use). All the users Since I am not on a domain at home (where I do the testing) I cannot handle the domain issues at all. So any problems stemming from domain usage is beyond my capabilities, I'm afraid... >appear to add correctly (I can see them in the passwd file). But when I How did they look in the passwd file? With doubled up backslashes or what? >attempt to login to my repository using pserver, I get "Fatal error, >aborting. cvs [login aborted]: <username>: no such user". If I enter an >incorrect password, I instead get an authorization failed message. So I >think I'm authenticating successfully (which must mean it found my user >listing), then it's dying somewhere else. I believe that CVSNT will first check the credentials you supply with your call (the user from your CVSROOT and the password you give). Then after this is OK it goes on to the "upper level" authentication and checks the user there. Then it is discovered that there is no such user at all and authentication fails. If you enter a non-existing username then the failure will be earlier I believe and the error messages are different. However, I just did some tests on my test W2003 server running CVSNT 2.5.03.2182 trying to log in with accounts that are set up in the passwd file but do not exist in the server itself. The strange thing is that I get the following messages: Logging in with an existing cvs user which does not exist in Windows: - Login seems to succeed, no error message at all - but when I try cvs ls as an operation using the account "kalle" who is a cvs user with no real account: c:\>set CVSROOT=:pserver:kalle at w2003srv:/PC c:\>cvs login Logging in to :pserver:kalle at w2003srv:2401:/PC CVS Password: So this succeeds apparently... c:\>cvs ls audit_trigger error (session): attempt to write a readonly database Audit trigger initialiasation failed: cvs server: Pre-command check failed Different result from yours... Then with a totally non-existing account: c:\>set CVSROOT=:pserver:charlie at w2003srv:/PC c:\>cvs login Logging in to :pserver:charlie at w2003srv:2401:/PC CVS Password: cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server w2003srv rejected access to /PC for user charlie Which must happen early on. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)