I just instigated admin controls by opening up and configuring the
UserAdminOptions setting.
My account is a member of Linux cvsadmin group, yet like
non-privileged users I cannot execute admin commands.
my error message is:-
cvs [admin aborted]: usage is restricted to members of the group
Larry Jones wrote:
Julian Opificius writes:
I just instigated admin controls by opening up and configuring the
UserAdminOptions setting.
My account is a member of Linux cvsadmin group, yet like
non-privileged users I cannot execute admin commands.
Then you're not really a member
Larry Jones wrote:
Julian Opificius writes:
That's the confusing thing; id tells me I'm a member of cvsadmin. Is
there any restriction about userid range? I'm 1000, cvsadmin group is 502.
In that case, my guess is that you're not using your account, you're
using the generic cvs account (you
Larry Jones wrote:
Julian Opificius writes:
I'm not quite sure what you mean by mapping users.
Using the third field of the CVSROOT/passwd file to have the server run
as some user other than the actual user.
Yep, that's what I am/was doing.
I want each user to
have his own login
Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Larry Jones wrote:
Julian Opificius writes:
I'm not quite sure what you mean by mapping users.
Using the third field of the CVSROOT/passwd file to have the server
run
Mark D. Baushke wrote:
The only problem now is that if a cvsadmin user introduces a directory
into the cvs repository using add, the directory is owned by him, not
by the global cvs user, and nobody else can check into/out of that
directory.
How do I automatically force new directories
Todd Denniston wrote:
Big question: What do you think using :pserver: at this point, gain you and
your users over just :ext: over ssh?
Because they already have (and will continue to have) valid system shell
login, from here it only looks like more admin trouble to setup and maintain
foomonkey wrote:
Hello. I have a repository configured and working with pserver. I want
to restrict user's permissions on subdirectories in the repository. I
don't want user A to see user B's projects and vice versa.
In my $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file, I have something like:
Todd Denniston wrote:
CLIP
The only reason I am using pserver is that it allows my users to have
CVAS controlled access to the respositories without giving them dierct
write access to them. If you can suggest another way of doing that, I'd
be glad to use it.
As Far As I Know, you are
foomonkey wrote:
I believe my problem lies in that my inetd.conf specifies to run
cvspserver under the cvsadm user account. When I have my
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file configured like,
username:password:cvsadm, everything works great. With the
exception that user A can see user B's projects and
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