On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:34:44PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Hi Sylvain, > > At the request of Ralf Wildenhues, I'm setting up a second > (after emacs) mirror-to-git process, this time for libtool. > > With this I may finally take the time to set up a regular > (non-root) account to perform the task properly. > IMHO, it must be in vcs-noshell. I was thinking of naming > the user mirror-cvs2git, but any name is fine. It will have > some local data (e.g., copy of each git repo) and cron jobs. > > Ok to create such a user? Then, the only question is where > to put its home directory. Do you have a preference? > I nearly created e.g., /h and put its home dir a sub-directory > of that, but figured it'd be better to ask first.
Hi, As far as I understand, you're essentially setting up a daemon, rather than a user, so you could create it as such: - low uid - homedir in /var/lib/cvs2git (where cvs2git is the name of the daemon) How do you plan to maintain the daemon's group memberships? Or will it own the repositories? -- Sylvain
