Re: cvs user creation

2001-06-26 Thread Peter Ajamian
kamesh jayachandran wrote: > > Hai all, > Sorry to repost. > I don't want to create regular system user accounts for my users.In stead > cvs specific user accounts for each user corresponding to one system user > account for the project this cvs user involved in. > What I need is something like c

Re: CVS Setup Help Needed

2001-06-23 Thread Peter Ajamian
Matt Keyes wrote: > > On the same note (but a little OT), how can I cut and paste from vi (I want > to cut the encrypted password from /etc/passwd and put it in the cvspasswd > file (whatever its called... I'm not at home so I can't look at it)? That depends on the interface or client you use to

Re: adding user with passwd file

2001-06-07 Thread Peter Ajamian
Rob Davies wrote: > > Hi > > Sorry if this isn't directed towards the correct mailing list. I'm having a > problem setting up a new user, using the file 'passwd'. If anyone can offer > any suggestions/help it would be greatly appreciated. > > I have created the file 'passwd' and added the line

Re: permission denied

2001-06-06 Thread Peter Ajamian
John Temple wrote: > > Ok I got some of it working then not enough I was wrong. > I was logged on as root and well as I now know you can't commit when logged > on as root. > So How do I set up new users so that they can commit? Okay, I'm guessing from previous posts that you're setting up a pser

Re: Multiple repositories - how to setup inetd.conf ?

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Ajamian
Thomas Bednarz wrote: > > Hello > > If I like to have multiple repositories with different access rights (using > pserver) do I have to make multiple entries in my inetd.conf file? > > I like to have the following repositories: > /cvs/Java > /cvs/C++ > > for a single repository I would do: >

Re: help: passwd file

2001-05-18 Thread Peter Ajamian
Andy Nuss wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to create entries > in the passwd file. Somewhere a few days > ago I saw the hash-algorithm posted on the net, > but can't find it now. > > Does anyone know this doc? Or is there a script > that has been written? Try the CVSPwd2 progr

Re: 'passwd' file creation Bug??

2001-05-17 Thread Peter Ajamian
"Á¶¿Á±Ù" wrote: > > local> cvs add passwd > local> cvs commit passwd > > I managed to find out an anomaly in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT. > passwd,v file was there, but No 'passwd' file itself!! > > That's the whole cause... when I copied passwd file > ,which was checked > out before, into $CVSROOT/CVSROO

Re: Passive Mode For CVS or other Options?

2001-05-17 Thread Peter Ajamian
Roger wrote: > > > Roger wrote: > > > Looks like with my ISP setup, I need to somehow enable Passive Mode. > > > > When I start a cvs download (a large one larger than approx. 1MB), the > > download stalls. It stops at a file but does not drop back to console > > with > > an error. As such, se

Re: Configuration Question

2001-05-17 Thread Peter Ajamian
Eric Siegerman wrote: > > > Also, where can I find files to create a pserver? Either RPM or source will > > do. > > There are no extra files; the main CVS binary will suffice. > Though someone's mentioned a program for maintainging pserver > password files; search the mailing-list archives. CVS

Re: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Ajamian
Peter Ajamian wrote: > > Larry Jones wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble reconciling this information with the > > original report that MD5 passwords don't work, but DES passwords do. Hrmmm, just thought of another possibility, what version of the crypt libra

Re: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Ajamian
Larry Jones wrote: > > If that's correct, and if MD5 passwords in /etc/passwd (or whatever > shadow file gets used) correctly start with $1$ I checked the shadow file on a RH7.0 installation I administer and the passwords do indeed start with $1$. > , and that's what > getpwnam() (or getspnam

Re: cvs with xinetd

2001-05-05 Thread Peter Ajamian
Larry Jones wrote: > > Then it would appear that RedHat and/or Linux in general implemented MD5 > passwords in a less than desirable fashion. What they should have done > is enhance crypt(3) to do MD5 based on the first character(s) of the > salt; They did (see below). > Presumably, they've pa

Re: pserver problem

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Ajamian
kanakpalli chandrashekhar wrote: > > thank you larry i used the perl script given in karl > fogel book. i entered the password generated by script > in cvsroot/passwd file. when i am trying from other > machine it is give :fatal error . can u explain me the > format . Try the CVSpwd program loca

Re: Correct way to add a new file with an "old" filename in CVS ??

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
Peter Biechele wrote: > > Sometimes I experience the following problem: > > I have deleted a file from CVS by using "rm file" and " cvs rm file". > This file is in the attic now. (Lets call it "file") > Then I want to add a new file with the SAME NAME: > "cp Somewhere/file file" > "cvs add fil

Re: Passwd file

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
Nigel Morse wrote: > > I've set up CVS for remote repository, and I can login using a system user > account (i.e. my own) but I want to use separate passwords and have CVS run > as a common user so I can tighten permissions (more to prevent accidental > deletation). > > I created a $CVSROOT/CVSR

Re: a question about wincvs

2001-04-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
> Wang Liheng wrote: > > Dear sir or Madam, > I am an administrator of CVS .We use WINCVS1.2 for client and Rad Hat > Linux6.2 for server, and setup the server for connection with pserver > and password authentication. > In our company, i need to creat checkout-only users who can only > checkout

Re: cvs prob

2001-04-17 Thread Peter Ajamian
jon wrote: > > $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/cvs/src login > (Logging into [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > CVS passwd: > cvs login: authorization failed: server 10.1.0.34 rejected access to > /usr/cvs/src for user jon > > it gives me this for anyone... anonymous w/ no passwd in CVSROOT/passwd, >

Re: Pserver Login problem

2001-03-14 Thread Peter Ajamian
"Furmaniuk, Michael" wrote: > > The passwd file I am modifying locally using Peter Ajamian's cvspwd > utility, which is really great, a shameless plug for him. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This sounds suspiciously like you are not mod

Re: Pserver Login problem

2001-03-14 Thread 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 g

Re: Pserver Login problem

2001-03-12 Thread Peter Ajamian
"Furmaniuk, Michael" wrote: > > >> - If I try to login with a test user, set up within the passwd file in > >> CVS, I get an error on the client > >> - cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from > >> relpbld03.navipath.net: E Fatal error, aborting. > >I don't understand how this case

Re: pserver question

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Ajamian
Jari Aalto+usenet wrote: > > * Thu 2001-03-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Ajamian) gnu.cvs.help > * > | Ceartainly that will encrypt the password for you, but the cvspwd > | utility I created will fully manage the passwd and readers files for > | you, allowing you to add and remo

Re: pserver question

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Ajamian
"Derek R. Price" wrote: > > Peter Ajamian wrote: > > > The passwords are not stored plain text in the passwd file, they have to > > be encrypted with the crypt() function. There's a utility available > > that I just finished work on this past week whic

Re: pserver question

2001-02-27 Thread Peter Ajamian
> From: "Furmaniuk, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:37:10 -0500 > > My problem: > I ... have changed the line in > config to SystemAuth=no, and added the passwd file, > > However, if I try to use the passwd file I either get an incorrect > password error if I chan

New cvspwd program for setting passwords for repository access...

2001-02-20 Thread Peter Ajamian
I just finished the cvspwd program I've been working on for a couple weeks now (I announced it a couple weeks ago on this mailing list). Following is a list of features: * An interface similar to the well known Unix Passwd utility. * Program is designed to run suid root or repository owner to

Can't get passwd to show up in CVSROOT & cvspwd

2001-02-13 Thread Peter Ajamian
I previously posted this to the gnu.cvs.help newsgroup with no response. After realizing that posts to this list goto the newsgroup, but not vice-versa I decided to re-post to the list. Original Post: I've tried everything I can think of, and barring manually copying it over to the repository,