[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt & win2k3 script permissions

[Mathew Davies]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Bo Berglund
> Sent: 09 May 2005 20:20
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [cvsnt] Re: cvsnt & win2k3 script permissions
> 
<snip> 
> >So I thought I was all setup and was just adding in things like the
> >postcommit
> >script I discovered these don't seem to work now. This seems 
> to be true
> >of all scripts I can call like the old loginfo and cvsnotify 
> scripts. 
> >
> >I have tried temporary setting the permissions on perl, cmd.exe and
> >update_websites.pl 
> >to read & excute. The cvs temp folder and the responsity to have
> >everyone full 
> >control yet when I commit a file that is in a module set to use
> >postcommit 
> >script I just get a script failed message on commit. I have 
> also tried 
> >changing the cvsnt services from system to a local user with 
> no affect.
> >
> >Does anyone know what I have to do or what permissions I set 
> on win2k3
> >to allow cvsnt to run scripts? Has anyone else installed 
> cvsnt on win2k3
> >and used scripts in things like loginfo or postcommit successfully?
> >
> 
> The problem here is the way W2003 has locked down alomost everything
> on the server...
> Specifically your problem comes from the way cmd.exe is locked down.
> You can do one of two things:
> 1) Go to %systemroot%\system32 and check the permissions of cmd.exe.
> You will probably discover that it is pretty much locked down. Since
> it is used to launch the scripts, you have to loosen up these
> permissions.
> 
> or
> 2) You can *copy* %systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe to the install folder
> for CVSNT. The copy will then not have the permissions as tightly set
> and CVSNT will find it first since it is right in the same folder as
> cvs.exe itself.
> 

I have tried both option 1 & 2 if anyone have got this working what 
permissions did they set on cmd.exe and perl binaries and libs? are they
running cvs as local system or a user?

Any help is appreciated thanks
mat

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