Re: [viewvc-users] Configuration Help with 1.1.2 version

Sergio Duran Lazaro wrote:
> Thanks very much for your fast answering, i´m reviewing the config files
> but can´t see were the problem is. It will be posible to ask some
> colleges of you about the iis configuration?, i suspect that the problem
> came when the iis ask for the user and password, is validiting the user
> by him self and not by the authz and passwd svn file, maybe the cgi is
> not reciving the user and pass.

You effectively asked my colleagues when you mailed the public list.  :-)

There are two distinct steps involved here:

1. authentication:  Handled by the web server with the sole purpose of
determine who the connecting user is.  This step is usually marked (in the
simple case) by a username and password challenge from the server, which, if
 correctly completed, results in the web server assigning a username to the
request and sharing that username with CGI programs via the REMOTE_USER
environment variable.

2. authorization:  Handled at various stages.  The web server will perform
some basic authorization to ensure that the connecting user is allowed to
use ViewVC at all.  ViewVC will then perform its own flavor of authorization
(using the username that the web server gave it, and the rules in the svn
authz file) to determine what data to display for a given repository view.

If you are using the default ViewVC templates, and if ViewVC has been given
an authenticated username by the web server (IIS), you should see in the
top-right corner of your ViewVC pages a note that reads something like,
"Logged in as: USERNAME".  If you don't see that, it means that ViewVC has
not been provided that username, and that something is wrong either with the
authentication phase or with the hand-off of the username to ViewVC.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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