[cvsnt] Re: Can't access CVSROOT dir with 2.0.41a or later...

[Glen Starrett]

Colin Bowler wrote:

> 
> I'm having a strange problem where I can't access anything in CVSROOT from
> CVSNT 2.0.41a or later.
> 
> I've tried 2.0.41a and 2.0.51a to no avail - I get 'Authentication protocol
> rejected access' with all of them. I also can't do a 'cvs ver'. I can freely
> update, commit, tag other modules in the repository.

Is this just CVSROOT or your entire repository?  Usually that error is 
associated with a bad login.

> 
> However, with 2.0.14 (the latest pre-2.0.41 version I have), it works just
> fine... I can update, commit or whatever in CVSROOT, do a cvs ver and so on.
> 
> 
> CVSNT server ver is 2.0.14 - yes, quite old, but entirely adequate for us! 
> cvsroot is sspi:colinb at server:2401:/CVS_Repos

Try removing the username from that string, it typically works best for 
everyone without.

I wonder if this is a new problem with username on sspi??  Several users 
have reported issues with that syntax and it cleared up by removing the 
username.

> Using WinCVS (Tried several versions - pointing them at the appropriate
> cvsnt version has isolated the problem as being CVSNT)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Colin
> 


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Glen Starrett