RE: 'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-24 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Paul Sander wrote: What are the modes of your directories right now? If you turn off world read and execute access to an ancestor directory, users can't penetrate the choke point without an ACL that accommodates your access policy. OK, that sounds reasonable. On further discussions with

'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
In our repository, we would like to be able to set up permissions so that specific groups of people (in particular, co-op students who are only with us for four months) can only check out from specific areas of the repository. In general, full-time staff have access to most, if not all, areas of

Antwort: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 27, Issue 51 ('checkoutinfo' trigger?)

2005-02-23 Thread Frank Knobloch
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Re: 'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-23 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim.Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For us, an equivalent to the 'commitinfo' which runs at checkout-time would be very useful. The trigger would behave the same - an exit code of 0 allows the checkout to proceed, and a non-zero exit code

RE: Antwort: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 27, Issue 51 ('checkoutinfo' tr igger?)

2005-02-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Frank Knobloch wrote: just try SINIS. (http://sinis.sourceforge.net/). This may help you. Thanks for the tip - I'll have a look at it. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (

RE: 'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-23 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Mark D. Baushke wrote: [snip use-case] This differers from your case where only a portion of the repository is restricted. Interesting. Same idea, different subsections (as you say, an inverse of our requirements). I would think that the solution to your problem would be that the commit

Re: 'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-23 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim.Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark D. Baushke wrote: [snip use-case] This differers from your case where only a portion of the repository is restricted. Interesting. Same idea, different subsections (as you say, an inverse of our

RE: 'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-23 Thread Arthur Barrett
Jim, In our repository, we would like to be able to set up permissions so that specific groups of people (in particular, co-op students who are only with us for four months) can only check out from specific areas of the repository. In general, full-time staff have access to most, if

Re: 'checkoutinfo' trigger?

2005-02-23 Thread Paul Sander
What are the modes of your directories right now? If you turn off world read and execute access to an ancestor directory, users can't penetrate the choke point without an ACL that accommodates your access policy. This won't work with pserver, of course. I'm glad to see another suggestion for

checkoutinfo

2004-06-21 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hello, I've added checkoutinfo to cvs-1.12.9, slightly based on a patch from Andrey Aristarkhov that found in the mailinglist archive (but can't seem to find again). I use it to have more detailed control over who can checkout and commit to specific repositories, directories and branches

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-09 Thread Wade Stebbings
I tend to agree. In my recent CVS project, I just went through an exercise where I created an abstraction layer above all the triggers currently available in CVS, to create such a consistent interface. If the existing interface were more consistent, it would have saved me some work. Each of

RE: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-08 Thread Erik Kluzek
ith bugs in CVS or this manual" in the Cederqvist manual). --Abstract End -- I would say, there is interest ;-0. Larry, could you possibly gimme an overview of what is needed here, in regards to the -t/-f flags? Why exactly did they switch it off? Should cvswrappers be fixed or

RE: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-08 Thread Noel L Yap
PROTECTED] (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: RE: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file? On Thu, 4 May 2000, Leeuw, Guus (G.) wrote: Larry Writes: Valerianus Oey writes: "cvs [server aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported by this version of CVS cvs [update aborted]: reading

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-05 Thread Erik Kluzek
agree with you that a badly designed script could be a problem. This would be the responsibility of anyone that adds a script to "checkoutinfo" to make sure it's secure and robust. But, it does seem somewhat unlikely that a script could cause security problems since the script

RE: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-04 Thread Leeuw, Guus (G.)
-Original Message- From: Erik Kluzek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 May 2000 06:25 To: Arthur Barrett Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file? On Thu, 4 May 2000, Arthur Barrett wrote: I thought this was the point of cvswrappers

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Sutton
ecify what program to run to prevent checkout. One drawback here is that the modules file can be bypassed by full path specifications, etc. The checkoutinfo trigger could not be bypassed. donald On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:22:46PM -0600, Erik Kluzek wrote: Is there any inter

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-04 Thread Noel L Yap
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file? I'd be interested in this for the reasons you mention. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2000 04:22:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: Interest

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-04 Thread Laird Nelson
Erik Kluzek wrote: Is there any interest in CVS having a "checkoutinfo" administration file? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I've read the other messages in this thread and am not convinced that the modules file -o option will do what I want in all cases. I've found several cases wher

Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-03 Thread Erik Kluzek
Is there any interest in CVS having a "checkoutinfo" administration file? This would be similar to "commitinfo" as it would run a script before files are checked out. This way checkout could limit the versions checked out or restrict access to branches etcetera. There are va

RE: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-03 Thread Arthur Barrett
I thought this was the point of cvswrappers, which is currently disabled, which is another point entirely... grin Is there any interest in CVS having a "checkoutinfo" administration file? This would be similar to "commitinfo" as it would run a script before files are c

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-03 Thread Donald Sharp
:22:46PM -0600, Erik Kluzek wrote: Is there any interest in CVS having a "checkoutinfo" administration file? This would be similar to "commitinfo" as it would run a script before files are checked out. This way checkout could limit the versions checked out or restrict access

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-03 Thread Noel L Yap
I'd be interested in this for the reasons you mention. Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2000 04:22:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap) Subject: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file? Is there any interest in CVS having a "checkoutinfo" administr

Re: Interest in checkoutinfo administration file?

2000-05-03 Thread Erik Kluzek
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Donald Sharp wrote: What you are looking for is the modules file. Split your project up into multiple modules. Each module being something you want to restrict access to. Within the CVSROOT/modules file use the -o program to specify what program to run to prevent