Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

RE: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Mark Hurley — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 03:40:00 GMT

How do I thank you? Already hooked it up, and tested. (not that I didn't trust you) OweKorbyParnell++; :)

re: VSS Password Guidelines

Korby Parnell's WebLog — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:46:00 GMT

User logs in as Admin w/o login prompt

Mahuya — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:57:00 GMT

Hi
we have a peculier problem. In one of our network machines no login prompt is shown and as soon we click Program->Microsoft VisualStudio Visual ->Sourcesafe the VSS explorere with Admin login opens up. Ours is a NT networked environment. Pls help

re: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Anon — Mon, 31 May 2004 03:57:00 GMT

How about avoiding the VSS prompt in DOS?? tried ur variable method..works for windows...but in dos...still prompts me for password...but when i tried..it says user does not exist...but I manage to get in VSS using my username..why is tat so ?

re: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Kevin Rector — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:54:00 GMT

Is this a type (you tell us what SSDIR is twice and it's not the same thing). Thanks for the info though.:

If not already present, you should also add/edit the following environment variables: SSDIR and PATH. The value for SSDIR should be the path to the \Win32 folder in your VSS installation directory. For example c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\Win32. SSDIR should be set to the path of the SRCSAFE.INI file for your database.

re: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Kevin Rector — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:55:00 GMT

Previous comment should say "typo". Awful clever of me to typo the word typo.

re: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Mikael Davidsson — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:21:39 GMT

The sspwd works great when I use Visual Source Safe, but when I use the integrated sourcesafe in Visual Studio 2003 I always gets promted for the password.
Username and database are fine.
Is it possible to get the password to work here aswell?

re: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Göran Roseen — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:49:23 GMT

As I recall, if your username and INITIAL password (the one entered when you create the VSS user) in VSS is the same as your Windows username and password, you will not be prompted to login.

After that, it is OK to change you Windows Password, VSS will still allow you to login without a prompt.

I have managed to get this working on a couple of sites, but not on the one I am currently working on, I guess I have to do some more investigating...

re: Avoiding the VSS Login Prompt

Alin — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:16:50 GMT

Korby, VSS password is merely a hash. Even if the same password is used for the Windows/Network account and VSS account, you won't be able to reconstruct the Win pass from the hash (way too many combinations produce the same hash). In any case, using different password for Win/VSS accounts it's a good recommendation...