Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Julian Opificius wrote: > > Todd Denniston wrote: > > > > Big question: What do you think using :pserver: at this point, gain you and > > your users over just :ext: over ssh? > > > > Because they already have (and will continue to have) valid system shell > > login, from here it only looks like mo

CVS Read-Only Access: readers & writers files

2005-07-05 Thread S I
Hi I'm reading the manual for CVS 1.11.20 and on page 27 (preprinted on the page, however, the .pdf document shows it to be page 29) I find the documentation for readers and writers files somewhat confusing and ambiguous. Could both readers and writers coexist or one at any given time? Que

Undesirable Watch/Edit Behavior

2005-07-05 Thread boomhauer123-gg
I've set up a CVS module with "cvs watch on" so that users have to use "cvs edit" to reserve files for editing. This works fine for serial editing of unmergeable binary files files. When users try to edit files already marked for editing by someone else they are told the file is unavailable for e

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-05 Thread Julian Opificius
Todd Denniston wrote: Big question: What do you think using :pserver: at this point, gain you and your users over just :ext: over ssh? Because they already have (and will continue to have) valid system shell login, from here it only looks like more admin trouble to setup and maintain pserver,

Re: Problem with admin privileges

2005-07-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Julian Opificius wrote: > > Thanks for this input! > > The problem is that each of these articles achieve their intended > results by restricting commands to "cvs". I don't want to do that: my > CVS users are my engineering department members with legitimate logins. > It's only access to the CVS