>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:03:59 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Stephen Rasku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: CVS permissions
>X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/18757
>
>Hello, Stephen!
>
>On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Stephen Rasku wrote:
>
>> I have just set up a cvs pserver on Linux and it appears that it
runs
>> the server as the person performing the command. I would prefer to
be
>> able to set the permissions such that the developers can't login to
>> the server machine and start playing around directly in the
>> repository. Is it possible to have the pserver run as a single
user
>> (e.g. cvs)?
>
>It is possible, but it may be not what you want. All modern Linux
>distributions support PAM, so you can just disable logins and
whatever
>else those developers can do with that machine (ftp, rexec). It is in
many
>cases better than "depersonalizing" them. You still know who is who
>without letting untrusted people in.
>
I may have mislead you. This was just something that I noticed while
I was testing on Linux. We intend to have the CVS server on Solaris.
I take it that Solaris supports PAM as well?
--
Stephen Rasku E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Software Engineer Web: http://www.tgivan.com/
TGI Technologies http://www.pop-star.net/
