[cvsnt] Authorization failed: rejected access to X by user Y

[Randy McCharles]

I sent a msg a while ago concerning config problems for CVSNT 2.5.02 and didn't get any suggestions.
Since then I have uninstalled 2.5.02 (which was remotely installed with the password agent) and then installed 2.5.03 locally using the default install (no password agent). This, however, didn't change anything.

The server is a new HP box running Server 2003 SP1
CVSNT is the only application installed (apart from Symantec Antivirus)
I have given "C:\Program Files\CVSNT\Temp" and my test repository "C:\CVSREPO" Full Access to all users

Server Settings tried:
Run as user: (client user) or SERVERNAME\Administrator
Default Domain: SERVERNAME
everything else is the default.

My test command is:
cvs -d:pserver:USER at SERVERNAME:/CVSREPO login -p password

which when run locally or from a network client generates:
Authorization failed: rejected access to /CVSREPO by user USER

I've looked through the CVS documentation and see that this is a generic error indicating that the user failed authentication, even though the same user can log onto the server with administrative privileges.

If I try "ssh: instead of :pserver: I get: FATAL ERROR:Network error:Connection refused

While I am unfamiliar with SSH, I am wondering if some feature of 2003 may be missing or some security setting misconfigured, thereby preventing CVSNT from authenticating correctly.

Any help on this is welcome as, frankly, I have run out of things to try.

Randy McCharles

SMART Technologies Inc.

Senior Software Developer

Tel. 403.802.3347  Fax 403.229.2531
randymccharles at smarttech.com
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