[p4] Newbie: Default users added - Todd Short - com.perforce.perforce-user

11 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] Newbie: Default users added

From	Sent On	Attachments
Bjørn Toft Madsen	03 Feb 2004 16:51
Bob Arnson	03 Feb 2004 18:47
Robert Cowham	04 Feb 2004 03:45
Bjørn Toft Madsen	04 Feb 2004 05:33
Grills, Jeff	04 Feb 2004 06:53
Todd Short	04 Feb 2004 06:59
Michael Grell	04 Feb 2004 07:33
Chuck Karish	04 Feb 2004 23:56
Robert Cowham	05 Feb 2004 01:29
Bjørn Toft Madsen	05 Feb 2004 02:44
Chuck Karish	05 Feb 2004 09:30

Subject:	[p4] Newbie: Default users added
From:	Todd Short (tsh...@cisco.com)
Date:	02/04/2004 06:59:54 AM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

This used to work... but it still allows users to be created... very annoying... I had to create dummy users to fill the slots...

-----Original Message----- From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com]On Behalf Of Grills, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:54 AM To: 'Bj?rn Toft Madsen'; perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: RE: [p4] Newbie: Default users added

I recently reported a bug to perforce that if there is a protection line that removes access to all users, like

list user * * -//path/...

that users will still be able to created, but they will have no access. I recommend creating place-holder accounts up to the license limit to keep users from being created.

-----Original Message----- From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Bj?rn Toft Madsen Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:33 AM To: perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: RE: [p4] Newbie: Default users added

Thanks for all the help. I've got the protection set up, following your advice in conjunction with http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.032/manuals/p4sag/03_superuse r.html#104 6585. While only the users in my group are now allowed to access the depot, I still get a new user created.

My Windows XP user name is "Bj?rn Toft Madsen". The user I would like to use on P4 is "bjorn". When I log on from the client, a new user "Bj?rn_Toft_Madsen" is created, despite the fact that "bjorn" is selected as my default user. Does my P4 user name and XP user name have to match to prevent this creation?

Btw: The Bj?rn_Toft_Madsen has no rights to access the depot, so the security aspect is working fine. Merely a mess that a new user gets created every time.

Thanks again Bj?rn

-----Original Message----- From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Robert Cowham Sent: 4. februar 2004 11:46 To: perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: RE: [p4] Newbie: Default users added

To expand on the protections option, see http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.032/manuals/p4sag/04_prot ect.html#10168 08

The basic idea is to create a group of users, e.g. "all_users" to which you add a list of allowed user names (see above link). Then edit your protections table and remove any lines which have "*" in the 3rd column.

E.g. change:

write user * * //... super user fred * //...

To:

write group all_users * //... super user fred * //...

From that point on, you just edit the group to allow people access (or remove it).

-----Original Message----- From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: 04 February 2004 02:48 To: Bj?rn Toft Madsen Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: Re: [p4] Newbie: Default users added

Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 7:51:31 PM, you wrote:

I am running my P4 server on another machine on the network. It seems whenever I connect to this pc from my own pc, my own user name is added as a user. For example, my user name on the client machine is Bjorn Madsen, so I'm automatically added as Bjorn_Madsen. Does this not imply that anybody who logs into the machine will automatically generate a user? If so, how do I prevent this?

Yes -- when installed, Perforce defaults to using your current user name as the Perforce account name.

You can tweak your Perforce server's protections table to prevent users from creating accounts, but the easiest way is to create "filler" accounts that use up your available license count. Delete them and create new user accounts when they're needed.