[I sent this msg 10 days ago noone responded. So, I'm trying again.]
Hello,
We are currently using an ancient version of CVS (1.11.1p1) on a rather old
Linux server (Red Hat 6). I intend to upgrade to CVS 1.11.19 eventually
upgrade the Linux OS. In the course of our CVS upgrade discussion we
David Leskovac wrote:
[...]
Is it possible to restrict 'cvs tag'
'cvs rtag' on a user or group level?
taginfo should help:
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.19/cvs_18.html#SEC177
You should be able to get the login name from $USER, $LOGNAME, or some such
means.
--
Jim Hyslop
Install cvs in a different place than the version you are using.
Make a script named cvs in the current location of cvs. That script should
check the cvs commands vs. valid users. If everything is OK, then it should
invoke the new cvs in the new place with the arguments passed to it.
This won't
permissions.
-chris
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Subject: Restricting use of 'cvs rtag' 'cvs tag' commands [2nd try]
[I sent this msg 10 days ago
Install cvs in a different place than the version you are using.
Make a script named cvs in the current location of cvs. That
script should check the cvs commands vs. valid users. If
everything is OK, then it should invoke the new cvs in the
new place with the arguments passed to it.
This
Dave,
restricting who is allowed to do certain cvs commands? In
particular, we would like to restrict who can create/delete
tags branch tags. Is it possible to restrict 'cvs tag'
'cvs rtag' on a user or group level?
If you can switch to CVSNT (free, GPL, just like CVS) for Linux,
David Leskovac writes:
None of the developers are malicious. The problem came up
because on 3 separate occasions, a developer who is not
very familiar with CVS somehow deleted 3 active branches.
That's much less likely with current releases of CVS since it now
refuses to disturb existing
