Re: Pserver Login problem

[Peter Ajamian]

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

Make sure that the readers file has permissions set to 640.  The system
account that the CVS user is asigned to needs to have group access to
this file.  I can't think of anything else that might be causing the
problem off the top of my head, but I'd imagine it to be a permissions
problem.  One other thing that worked for me when I was having problems
(I forget which problem exactly) was to simply re-initialize the
repository (with cvs init).

> >Are the passwords encrypted or plaintext?  They have to be encrypted to
> >work.  If you want you can grab a copy of the new CVSPWD program which
> >will manage the password and readers files for you.  You can get the
> >program at http://www.pajamian.dhs.org .
> 
>   Yes, I used the latest version from 3/9/01 - 2.0.5 and installed it, and
> am getting the encrypted keys in the passwd file, that's why I was wondering
> if there was something else on the CVS server that might need checking.

DOH!  I should've realized that not only did your original post state
that you were using the program but you've been corresponding with me (or
maybe I just wanted to get another plug in for it j/k)!

Regards, Peter