[cvsnt] Re: SSPI commits to repository saved under author: administrator

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:40:17 -0500, "Givler, Eric"
<egivler at state.pa.us> wrote:

>We have three machines connecting to a CVS NT repository (2.5.3) on a Windows 2000 box using sspi.  Each user is defined in the CVSROOT/passwd file (no password).
>Installation/setup was done according to the notes here: http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationTips

That is *really* old and I would have removed it if only I knew how to
edit the wiki. Look here instead:
http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/InstallCVSNT25.html

>
>When one of the users attempted to commit to the repository, he got the error:
>the "administrator" not found in CVSROOT/passwd.
>Once I added this user (administrator) to the file, any commits that the user did were authored by "administrator".
>
>Changes that I do are authored as "DOMAIN\egivler", as well as for another developer, but not on this workstation.
>In terms of workstations, we all use the same sspi connection string, like this:
>
>:sspi:egivler:/cvs/jdev1012
>
>Workstation 1: windows xp: works
>Workstation 2: windows xp: does not work

XP comes in two versions, Pro and Home. Which one are you using?



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)