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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 13:38:38 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "James L. Ash" <james DOT ash AT sbc DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cvs pserver info
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James -
   Thanks for this report -- you are AFAIK the *first* person to get 
cygwin-cvs :pserver: working.  Congrats!  Your analysis is going in the 
next update's documentation...

You are correct; no code has been added to cygwin-cvs to enable 
windows-style user context switches.  Since sshd already has that 
context-switching capability, most folks are using CVS_RSH=cvs on the 
client machine, and accessing the repository via :ext: (not :pserver:).

However, if anybody out there wants to generate a patch to add NTish 
context-switching code to the cvsd, feel free to send it in.

--Chuck
cygwin cvs maintainer


James L. Ash wrote:

> 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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