[cvsnt] Re: Can Not Use pserver

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Dec 18 14:31:09 GMT 2003


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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:17:29 -0800 (PST), <salman_mdn at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>In our earlier repos which was using 1.x we did not
>have the users on the server. Actually they were in a
>different domain. We use MS Active directory.
>I think they were aliased to a generic user like
>cvsuser. that way we dont have to create a new user on
>the repos server every time they add a developer.
>I want to do the same thing on this server also,
>please help.
>Thanks again for your help, I appreaciate your time.


If you're aliasing then the aliased user must exist (cvsuser in your
example).  It sounds like on your system you could just drop the use
of the passwd file and use the system users anyway.  Just specify the
other domain in the username (and make sure trust is setup).

Tony




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