--On Friday, January 17, 2003 12:34 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do users connecting using the pserver method need a real account (shell > login, home directory,...) on the machine running cvs pserver?
I just read the relevant section. Basically, CVS has its own password file, but will use the system password file as a backup. (This can be disabled.) The CVS password file uses a triplet of information for each CVS user: cvs username, cvs password, and equivalent system username. Just set the last value to the name of some pseudo-user on the pserver. You can use different pseudo-users to establish different access rights to different parts of the repository. My intention is to run the pserver as a pseudo-user and set the 3rd value to that same pseudo-user for all cvs users. This eliminates the need to run the pserver as root, which is always a security risk for any service. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
