storing default username/password

[MattH]

hey all,

Anyone know where VSS stores the default username/password that it uses? For
example, I have 2 databases on my local system, each with a different
username/password. For some reason, SourceSafe always attempts to use the
user/pwd for db A, even if I try to open db B. It doesn't matter if I change
the username/pwd for db A, it is still trying to use the old info from A.
This works fine when db A is the last opened, but if I successfully open db
B, or change the login info for db A, the login info isn't updated, so the
next time I bring up VSS, it prompts me for the login.

I've searched thru the registry, and can't find anywhere that this info is
stored, and also can't find it in any of the ini files. I don't know where
else that kind of info would be stored...

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

-matt

[Joe Masters]

The only thing VSS really knows about when you first bring it up are
your local login name. If that doesn't match an account on the
database it's trying to open, you'll get prompted for the user name
and password. Does this help?

Joe

On Fri, 4 May 2001 14:21:33 -0400, "MattH" <mh...@NOSPAMone.net>
wrote:

[Weston Morris]

Hi Matt,

Are you trying to use the same user name with different passwords on the two
databases? If so, then you probably have VSS set up to 'use network name for
automatic user log in ' on the general tab of the SSEXP Tools:Options menu.
To get around this you can turn that off and create a shortcut that passes
the user login name and password to SSEXP on the command line.
e.g.

ssexp.exe -y<username>,<password>

BTW, you can also pass the project name via the -P command line parm and the
database via the -S parm.

Personally, I prefer to have the same user login name and password in all my
VSS databases and keep that the same as my network login.

Weston

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[MattH]

thanks for the help.

I started to wonderif it was using my NT account login. I did some testing,
and found that it was.

-matt

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