On Tuesday, February 29, 2000 7:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I am using CVS 1.10 with pserver on AIX 4.3
>
> The system administrator at my site prefers not to run cvs as root.
> In /etc/inetd.conf
> we got
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> "cvspserver stream tcp nowait cvsowner /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs
> --allow-root=/usr/local/newrepos pserver"
>
> note the use of "cvsowner" instead of "root".
>
> What are the pro/cons of running CVS as root/a user account?
> The repository is owned by the "cvsowner" user.
>
>From my experience of doing the same thing there are three things to be
aware of:
1. if you are not running as root, the system passwords cannot be accessed
(if they are in a shadow file and I assume from what I have seen here that
AIX is similar). This means that you have to create a CVSROOT/passwd file
which should NOT be under CVS control.
2. once you use a CVSROOT/passwd file, the required format changes between
1.10 and 1.10.7 (I'm not sure which version changed the format). The
format you will need to use is:
user:password:cvsowner
3. once you are running as cvsowner, any loginfo, commitinfo or taginfo
scripts may need to be modified to take the $USER cvs variable as the 'id'
and 'whoami' commands will return cvsowner.
Those are the only issues I am aware of. We also set the repository
permissions to 2755.
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