Actually, I was hoping for more from that link than the suggestion to use samba...
this looks more promising, but I haven't had a chance to read through it yet... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-08/msg00838.html William On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, William Sutton wrote: > Right...old system used sspi with our nt domain accounts to a system > running w2k. new system is designed to use corporate single-signon > accounts (mine is william_sutton) and have them authenticated on a linux > server via ldap. I have no idea how that side of the mechanism works, > just that (supposedly) it does :) > > I have, of course, the cvsadmin acct to access it for setup, but I'm not > about to let everybody and their dog use it to check in/out code. > > I've emailed the person who set up the server inquiring as to just what > they think I should be using for authentication. > > Now that I'm done replying, I'm going to go read that url about how this > is nontrivial (heh, wish I'd known that yesterday) and eat some lunch > > William > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tom Bryan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 01:12 pm, Mike M wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:38:11PM -0400, William Sutton wrote: > > > > right.. > > > > > > > > the tree looks like > > > > > > > > /home > > > > /cvsadmin > > > > /cvsroot > > > > /CVSROOT > > > > modules > > > > ... > > > > /mymodule > > > > ... > > > > > > > > so I would have figured that I wanted /home/cvsadmin/cvsroot ... > > > > > > yup. > > > > > > hmmm. no account on the CVS repository server. If you don't have > > > an account on the CVS server then how do you know for sure the > > > tree looks like what you show above :-). > > > > >From what I gather, he has an account that he can use to test on the CVS > > server. When he tried to login using pserver, it didn't work. No surprise > > there; I don't think pserver is really configured. > > > > What he wants (I think) is to have users with no explicit account on the CVS > > server. They will connect to the CVS server and login based on their > > credentials in LDAP. I have no idea how that works. :-) > > > > It looks like he's not the only one who found this problem non-trivial. > > http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_20927411.html > > > > I'm on the verge of recommending that they stop spending engineering dollars > > setting it up and migrate to Perforce instead. ;-) > > > > ---Tom > > > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
