Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-07 Thread Julian Opificius
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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Julian Opificius wrote: SNIP Thanks for this input! The problem is that each of these articles achieve their intended results by restricting commands to cvs. I don't want to do that: my CVS users are my engineering department members with legitimate logins. It's only access to the CVS

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-05 Thread Julian Opificius
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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-02 Thread Julian Opificius
Mark D. Baushke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 as

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-02 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-02 Thread Julian Opificius
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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-02 Thread Totok Sulistiomono
Hi Julian. Julian Opificius wrote: Mark D. Baushke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-02 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Julian Opificius
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 of the

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
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 of the cvsadmin group. If

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
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 say all of your CVS

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Julian Opificius
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

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
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. I want each user to have his own login to the system, and I want to control access to CVS

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Julian Opificius
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 to the

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 as some user other than the

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Todd Denniston
Julian Opificius wrote: SNIP I have one more issue that affects my choice that I should have mentioned earlier. We are working in an FAA-regulated environment, and my CVS respository must be secure, in that nobody can impair the lifecycle data, and all accesses must be documented and

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Jones
Julian Opificius writes: I have one more issue that affects my choice that I should have mentioned earlier. We are working in an FAA-regulated environment, and my CVS respository must be secure, in that nobody can impair the lifecycle data, and all accesses must be documented and