Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
> Did you check your /etc/group? Is there a group Guests and > Guest has that group as primary group in /etc/passwd? > > Corinna There is a group Guests and a user Guest - however, I'm not sure how to tell the primary (or the secondary) group of a user. I think the group entries may be wrong -

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:59:40PM -, Phil Dempster wrote: > > Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > > following (quoted): > [snip] > > Apologies and thanks... > > So: Since CVS is evidently ru

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
> Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > following (quoted): [snip] Apologies and thanks... So: Since CVS is evidently running as Guest (there are no entries in the event log to contradict this) and t

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:46:48AM -, Phil Dempster wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've managed to get CVS pserver running on Win2K (ntsec) and am in the > process of preparing some documentation for it. I'm trying to grasp just > how the user ID switching works when CVS is spawned from inetd. > >

ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
Hi folks, I've managed to get CVS pserver running on Win2K (ntsec) and am in the process of preparing some documentation for it. I'm trying to grasp just how the user ID switching works when CVS is spawned from inetd. I've found that it is not necessary to specify the user as `root' in inetd.co