RE: [Sandweb-users] cvs repository username problem

[Robert H. <ro...@ro...>]

Hmm this is going out to the shell, did you try using two backlashes \\ 
in the .user.cfg?

The shell treats backslash as an escape character.

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 2:45pm, Webb, Jason wrote:
> 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
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
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