No, in and of itself the lockdir thing does not secure CVSROOT, but it is needed when you put an NTFS based security system in place. I have discussed this isuue a hbit on the following webpage, but there are other views on how to do it as well from others...
http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85831169/InstallCVSNT.html#UserAccess /Bo On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 02:35:31 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Edward Sumerfield") wrote: > >Does this make the repository readonly for everyone? How do I define some >users with read write access? > >"Bo Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> For readonly access to CVS you need to create a 'LockDir' directory, >> preferably 'cvslocks' below the cvstemp directory and set the >> CVSROOT/config option as follows: >> LockDir=c:/cvstemp/cvslocks >> (Of course assuming that the temp dir is in c:/cvstemp) >> >> /Bo >> >> >> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:32:34 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ("Edward Sumerfield") wrote: >> >> > >> >I am publishing my CVSNT root out to the web using the jcvslet servlet. I >> >would like to make the servlet login to CVS using an NT user id that only >> >has read access to the cvsroot tree. >> > >> >When I restrict the disk in this fashion I get an authentication error >> >claiming no access to cvsroot/CVSROOT/config. I have tried giving the NT >> >user read and write to this file with no success. >> > >> >The only other config was to make sure that the NT user had modify to the >> >cvstemp dir that the server was configured with. >> > >> >Any ideas? >> > >> >Ed >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Cvsnt mailing list >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt >> >> >> /Bo >> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) >> _______________________________________________ >> Cvsnt mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt > > >_______________________________________________ >Cvsnt mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
