[cvsnt] "cvs passwd -r ..." keeps telling me I'm "not a real user on the system"

[Tony Hoyle]

Gordon, Seth wrote:

> I have installed CVSNT on my own W2K workstation and I want people on other
> machines to be able to access it through pserver.  (When this goes into
> production, the other machines may be Unix machines at our customers' sites,
> so ntserver/sspi authentication is not an option.)  I'm trying to set up a
> CVS account in the system for "customers" to use, but whenever I type "cvs
> passwd -r sgordon -a customer", I get the error "User 'sgordon' is not a
> real user on the system."  But "sgordon" is the name I log in as.

If you're in a domain it has to be a domain user (you can override that 
in the control panel).  It's possible if you're using some kind of 3rd 
party login system also that the standard windows routines can't see it 
(although it seems to work even with pGinaPAM here).

Tony