Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

2004-01-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 14:02:19 (-0600), johnny fulcrum wrote: ] Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository? Is there more than one way to run Pserver? Of course. All my pserver users have accounts on the unix box (err unix network) and they have to

Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

2004-01-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 15:13:08 (-0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository? The key here is accountability, I think. Indeed it is! ;-) pserver has effectively no accountability, and telnet/rlogin have some (as far as I

RE: Ignore dirs/no-ext-files

2004-01-21 Thread Fabian Cenedese
Is it possible with .cvsignore/CVSIGNORE/cvswrapper to ignore a directory? Yes, just put the directory name in a .cvsignore file, in the parent directory of the directory you want to ignore. Hmm, should have already known that. I will try this out, thanks. And as other variant: Can I make a

RE: cvsignore

2004-01-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Purushotham Komaravolu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody tell me how to setup cvsignore for the entire repository. I added the attached file to the repository/CVSROOT folder, but it dint work. Just a shot in the dark here, but did you add cvsignore to

RE: Replacing the head revision

2004-01-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Alexander von Below [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I continued to work not in the head (because I misunderstood branches and stuff), but in VER_1-bt. So what I have in VER_1-bt is, de facto, the current, QA'ed, released and shipping version. (A copy of it also resides somewhere else on my

RE: Selectively enable branching rights

2004-01-21 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Purushotham Komaravolu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody tell me how to selectively give rights to a certain set of users, the rights to branch etc. Use a different source management tool. CVS does not support this directly. Why would you want to prevent users from

Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

2004-01-21 Thread david
[ On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 15:13:08 (-0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository? If you have a trusted network and you do feel comfortable with telnet and rlogin then USE THEM -- DO NOT USE PSERVER. The logic for

Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

2004-01-21 Thread WJCarpenter
gaw CVS is not a security application, was not designed as a security gaw application, and despite recent hackish patches is not gaw implemented as a security application. CVS does not provide the gaw same level of authentication, and not even remotely the same gaw level of authorization control,

cvsignore

2004-01-21 Thread Purushotham Komaravolu
Hello, Can somebody tell me how to setup cvsignore for the entire repository. I added the attached file to the repository/CVSROOT folder, but it dint work. i.e I created a test.class and tried to add *.* to repository, CVS should ignore that file.. but it dint Thanks Puru

Re: cvsignore

2004-01-21 Thread Larry Jones
Purushotham Komaravolu writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please do not send MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list. Plain text only, PLEASE! I added the attached file to the repository/CVSROOT folder, but it dint work. i.e I created a test.class and tried to

Setting up CVS server on Linux

2004-01-21 Thread Yanglong Zhu
Hi there, I posted the problem earlier when I was terribly confused. I now try to present it more clearly. I am trying to set up a CVS pserver on a Linux box. But I can only login and checkout from the local box, cannot checkout from a remote box although I can login from a remote box. From