Re: Pserver Login problem

[Larry Jones]

Furmaniuk, Michael writes:
> 
>   Changing the password in the passwd file, using the passwd utility I show
> the file as changed, and can get in with the User account on the machine,

Let me make sure I understand you.  You changed the system password for
a user named "User", and you can now log into CVS from the client
machine using that username and password, right?

> but if I create a new account linked to my User account, as per the docs, I
> get refused access.  

I don't understand what you mean by this.  Do you mean you added a new
entry to the sytem password file with the same uid as User, or that you
added an entry to the CVS passwd file ($CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd) with the
third field set to User?  If you're talking about the CVS passwd file,
it would be helpful to show us exactly what it contains.

> I've still got the config file commented to not use
> system passwd files, but it seems to still do this, I can log in with the
> system account using the system passwd only.

SystemAuth defaults to "yes".  If you want to disable it, you have to
*uncomment* the entry in the config file ($CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config).

>   I'm beginning to think that I can't get this work.  Is there any other way
> to debug what is going on?

Tell us exactly what you did, in detail, and exactly what error messages
you get.

-Larry Jones

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