On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Larry Jones wrote:
Jan Grant writes:
I'm a bit stumped as to where patches for this should go. We're looking
at running CVS here using :ext:-mode access and ssh, and using sshd's
command="cvs --allow-root=/blah server"
option to limit people to only
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Larry Jones wrote:
Jan Grant writes:
I'm a bit stumped as to where patches for this should go. We're looking
at running CVS here using :ext:-mode access and ssh, and using sshd's
command="cvs --allow-root=/blah
Jan Grant writes:
Oh, and POLA: --allow-root is listed as a "general option"; if it
doesn't apply to anything except pserver then it ought to be made a
pserver-specific option.
It should be a command option but there were technical reasons for
making it a global option instead.
-Larry
Jan Grant writes:
In riposte, can I ask: why does pserver need --allow-root?
Because pserver typically runs as root and uses the client-supplied root
to look for a CVSROOT/passwd file that says who's allowed to log in and
who they should run as. If it weren't for --allow-root, someone with
I'm a bit stumped as to where patches for this should go. We're looking
at running CVS here using :ext:-mode access and ssh, and using sshd's
command="cvs --allow-root=/blah server"
option to limit people to only runing CVS.
Currently the CVS server I have access to (1.11-derived)
Jan Grant writes:
I'm a bit stumped as to where patches for this should go. We're looking
at running CVS here using :ext:-mode access and ssh, and using sshd's
command="cvs --allow-root=/blah server"
option to limit people to only runing CVS.
Since sshd ends up running as the
