cvs pserver info

["James L. Ash" <james dot ash at sbc dot com>]

I have successfully installed the cygwin provided cvs and am accessing
it via pserver. It is not pretty but it works. The server is NT 4.0,
sp6a.

The ONLY way that I could get it work work was to do the following:

     In the windows user manager, set up an account and make it a member
of the administrators group
     In my /usr/local/cvs_repository/CVSROOT, set up that user id to
emulate administrator, such as:

    ja7295cvs:x2vKNQYgaDpK.:Administrator

Everything else - the /etc/inetd.conf and the
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\services - are set up per the CVS
documentation.

I came up with this after trying everything else I could think of. So
basically, I'm saying that every account into cvs must be an
administrator of
that box. I'm  basically working alone, so that hasn't been an issue for
me yet. I *think* the issue is that the cvs code has not been patched so

that it can switch the user context. I haven't tried patching it,
because I can get by with the setup I have now.

I am able to access my cvs server running on windows from other windows
boxes on our corporate network (nt 4.0 and windows 2000) and
from an AIX 4.3 box.

I don't remember the exact error messages that I was getting but I spent
a lot of time, maybe a couple of weeks, working this out so I am highly
confident that this is the only way to get pserver to work with cvs as
it is provided today, that is,  without a patch.




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