[cvsnt] pserver authorization problems

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Sat Jan 7 15:32:06 GMT 2006


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David Jackman wrote:
> I started playing around with the CVSNT server settings and found that
> if I change the "Run as user" setting from "(client user)" to a named
> user account on that server machine (doesn't seem to matter which user I
> use), then pserver works for all users.  Is this the account CVSNT uses
> if it can't find the user account that the particular cvs user is
> supposed to be using (instead of just reporting an error and aborting)?

It forces it to use the same user all the time.  Normally you'd set it 
to a user with only minimal privileges.

> If so, then the question still remains why can't CVSNT find the user?
> The accounts exist (I tried local accounts and domain accounts)--is it
> that CVSNT can't find them or it isn't able to run as that user?  Is
> there any error log information that gives more details about what's

The system audit log will contain any errors.

Tony



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