cvs pserver authentication frustration

cvs pserver authentication frustration

[Geoff Soutter]

Hi there,

I've just spent a day mucking around with CVS pserver mode under cvywin
trying to get it to work. I succeeded in getting inetd set up, and getting
CVS running under it.

(I added this to inetd.conf

cvspserver stream  tcp  nowait  root    /bin/cvs
cvs -f --allow-root=<directory name> pserver

and I added this to C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\services

cvspserver       2401/tcp)

However, I can't seem to get the authentication to work.

I always get the following message:

cvs login: authorization failed: server devserver rejected access to
<directory name> for user <user>

I have consulted google and the mailing list archives in order to find a
solution. I see people have asked similar questions before but never
recieved a reply.

I've tried all kinds of authentication options: for example, I tried using a
real nt user, and creating users in CVSROOT/passwd. Neither options worked,
even when I used blank passwords. The FTP server authentication works ok, so
its not my system setup, presumably.

Has anyone got CVS pserver working under cygwin? Any hints for how to get
the authentication working? Or, perhaps it's known to be broken?

Cheers

Geoff




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Re: cvs pserver authentication frustration

[Charles Wilson]

Geoff Soutter wrote:

> I have consulted google and the mailing list archives in order to find a
> solution. I see people have asked similar questions before but never
> recieved a reply.


Not entirely true. I have replied on occaision, but I get tired of 
answering the same question over and over.  The content of those replies 
was: "I have not tested pserver functionality.  AFAIK, pserver does not 
work on cygwin.  If you manage to get it to work, please post to the 
list how you did that,including configury and patches (if needed)"

I believe that cvs in pserver server mode will have problems with 
switching user context; I have added no windows-specific code to enable 
seteuid() to work, so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work. 
Patches gratefully accepted.

Or, you could get sshd working, and use CVS_RSH=ssh on the remote 
machine...and then *cvs* would be run as a local process on the 
repository host; ssh would handle the network stuff.


> I've tried all kinds of authentication options: for example, I tried using a
> real nt user, and creating users in CVSROOT/passwd. Neither options worked,
> even when I used blank passwords. The FTP server authentication works ok, so
> its not my system setup, presumably.
> 
> Has anyone got CVS pserver working under cygwin? Any hints for how to get
> the authentication working? Or, perhaps it's known to be broken?


"Known to be broken" is probably the closest description.

--Chuck



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Re: cvs pserver authentication frustration

[Greg Matheson]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Geoff Soutter wrote:

> Hi there,

> I've just spent a day mucking around with CVS pserver mode under cvywin
> trying to get it to work. I succeeded in getting inetd set up, and getting
> CVS running under it.

[cut]

> I have consulted google and the mailing list archives in order to find a
> solution. I see people have asked similar questions before but never
> recieved a reply.

Did you read this message:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00233.html

It starts:
> 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
          

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RE: cvs pserver authentication frustration

[Geoff Soutter]

Hi Charles

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Much appreciated.

> I believe that cvs in pserver server mode will have problems with
> switching user context; I have added no windows-specific code
> to enable
> seteuid() to work, so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work.
> Patches gratefully accepted.

Guessed as much.

Sorry, patches are beyond me at the moment. It's years since I wrote any
C...

> Or, you could get sshd working, and use CVS_RSH=ssh on the remote
> machine...and then *cvs* would be run as a local process on the
> repository host; ssh would handle the network stuff.

Yes, thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to try this. At least I remember
how inetd works now...

Cheers,

Geoff


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RE: cvs pserver authentication frustration

[Geoff Soutter]

> > I have consulted google and the mailing list archives in 
> order to find a
> > solution. I see people have asked similar questions before but never
> > recieved a reply.
> 
> Did you read this message:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00233.html

No. Doh! My archive searching skills are obviously on the blink. Sigh.

Geoff



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