[cvsnt] WinCVS Login Issue

[Tony Hoyle]

Dino Buiatti wrote:

> I did the following to create a user:

You don't create users with sspi normally.  Your CVSROOT shows everything
working fine without this anyway, so just leave things as thay are.

> 1. set cvsroot=:sspi:FERRARI:/test
> 2. cvs passwd -r dino -a DinoNew4

This line is for pserver only and is meanlngless for sspi

> 3. Enter password and password confirmed

This is also meaningless for sspi

> 3. To test: cvs ls -l -R

This uses your current CVSROOT, from step 1, which of course works fine.
> cvs -d :sspi:dino4 at ferrari:/test login
> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from ferrari: cvs
> [server aborted]: Authentication protocol rejected access

This uses a new user which either doesn't exist, or you don't have the
password for it.  If sounds like you're expecting the user from the passwd
command in step 2 to take effect - it won't, as that is for pserver only.

Unless there's a special reason for using usernames with sspi, don't use
them, as it's just added complexity.  The system can work out the details
without any manual intervention.

Tony