Hi

I emailed CVSNT group but couldn't details about configuring Active 
directory in Sun Solaris server. They just pointed me to CVSNT manual 
which was not what i am looking for. Since you have configured active 
directory for CVS installed in Linux can you please provide me the steps 
you followed for configuring active directory in Linux. I believe the 
steps must be same for Sun Solaris too.


Thanks,
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Ganesh Subramanian | Tech Lead - Software Engineering Tools Support
Technology Infrastructure & Strategy
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"Arthur Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
08/30/2008 02:36 AM

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Ganesh,
 
These appear to be questions about CVSNT.  Questions about CVSNT should be 
directed to the CVSNT newsgroup:
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
or
news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt
Regards,
 
 
Arthur Barrett
 
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From: Ganesh 2 Subramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2008 1:13 AM
To: Arthur Barrett; support
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Subject: RE: CVS and Active Directory


Hi, 

Thanks for your inputs. It is very helpful. 

Need some more details about the options you mentioned. 

1) Is there a documentation or manual available which explains in detail 
about authentication via Microsoft Active directory for CVSNT server?. 
From 
your email we understand that if we go for this approach it would be a 
login free solution, how can we control access to repositories then?. 


2) We are also looking for a guide that would explain in detail about the 
Migration steps from CVS to CVSNT. We would want to know how 
easy/difficult it is. 


Thanks,
>  >  >  >  >  >  >  > 
  
Ganesh Subramanian | Tech Lead - Software Engineering Tools Support 
Technology Infrastructure & Strategy 
Ameriprise Financial 
  
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 
5193 Ameriprise Financial Center | Minneapolis, MN 55474 
Office: 612.678-5013 | Mobile: 612-242-5520 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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"Arthur Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
08/29/2008 08:31 AM 


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Ganesh,

There are two approaches - one uses CVS and PServer (which is what you are 
asking about) and the other uses CVSNT (yes it runs on Solaris) and a 
protocol called SSPI. 

The SSPI technique results in encrypted "login free" transactions from 
Windows/PC clients (same as "net use" does) by passing the login token of 
the logged in user to the server.

Wiith the PServer technique you will need to use "cvs login" which usually 
results in the password being stored in a file (or in the case of windows 
the registry) in an insecure/trivially encoded format).

If you are looking for a "login free" solution then you will need to 
switch to CVSNT on your Solaris server and Windows/PC clients (you 
probably already are using CVSNT on the Windows PC clients) and direct 
your questions to the CVSNT newsgroup.  I've personally used this on Linux 
but not on Solaris though it should work identically.

According to google search (search for "cvs pam site:ximbiot.com" without 
the quotes) the PAM support in CVS 1.12.13 (the unstable version) is 
experimental.  PAM support (for CVS PSERVER access) as well as SSPI 
support has been in stable CVSNT releases for a few years at least.

CVSNT Newsgroup details are on cvsnt.org/wiki

Regards,


Arthur Barrett



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Subject:                 CVS and Active Directory

Hi,

We are trying to setup authentication of CVS against Active Directory. 

I did a google , from what I understand, that the CVS can be authenticated 

against 
active directory by modifying the PAM settings (pam.conf) for CVS. I would 

like to know in detail the steps/settings change we need to follow to make 

this work.


Current CVS set up

CVS Version - 1.11.21 (client/server)

OS - CVS installed in Sun solaris server.

Authentication - Uses pserver mechanism  for authentication. Passwords are 

currently stored in passwd file.


Please provide us the changes/modifications needed for the current set up 
to authenticate against Active directory.

Thanks in advance!
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Ganesh Subramanian
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