RE: [Sandweb-users] cvs repository username problem

[Webb, J. <jas...@lm...>]

I have tried to edit the .user.cfg files manually with the same result
as before(the \ is still removed).

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Helmer [mailto:ro...@ro...] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:53 PM
To: Webb, Jason
Cc: san...@li...
Subject: Re: [Sandweb-users] cvs repository username problem

Ah that's interesting.. ok. Using pserver with SandWeb has some
drawbacks, having to do with the way pserver works:

1) all passwords are stored in ~www-user/.cvspass
2) all checkins appear to come from www-user

Substitute "www-user" for your Apache user's name.

Anyway, SSH overcomes these problems, but your core problem will
be the same, that SandWeb isn't taking the \ character.

One workaround you can try is to edit the .user.cfg file directly;
I think that should work. The default location is
/usr/local/share/sandweb/users/${username}/.user.cfg

Let me know if that works.


--
Rob


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:28:21PM -0700, Webb, Jason wrote:
> I am using pserver. The cvs username for this user to access the cvs
> repository has to be passed as a domain followed by a "\" followed by
> his username. We have to do it this way because of the way his user
> account is set up.  Any suggestions?  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Helmer [mailto:ro...@ro...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: Webb, Jason
> Subject: Re: [Sandweb-users] cvs repository username problem
> 
> This needs to be done within SandWeb (workaround would be for
> the user to change their name :) ).
> 
> I just confirmed that backslashes in usernames work for SandWeb
> users but not for CVS over SSH users.. this is what you are seeing
> right?
> 
> I'll see if I can put out a patch for the 1.0 branch that addresses
> this.. however we need to be very careful with funny characters since
> this is part of a call to the shell.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:00:01PM -0700, Webb, Jason wrote:
> > I am having another problem. I have Sandweb up and working now,
> however
> > there is one user that needs to access our CVS repository and can't,
> > while everybody else can. The problem seems to be that the username
> that
> > he needs to access the repository with, contains a backslash(\).
From
> > the debugging info it seems that the "\" is being stripped out of
the
> > username before it is ever passed to the repository for
> authentication.
> > Is there a way to get around this problem?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > -Jason
> > 
> >  
> > 
> 
> 
>