For those who are curious, the guy who set up the cvs system that I've been trying to get into replied that I should use the pserver format...I had the directory wrong (should have been /usr/cvsroot) (no shock, really), but he added the following:
"The problema is that it doesn�t authenticate on LDAP tree, but I�m still working on that. I resent a message to cvs development group to ask for help on that, but still waiting for a response." ACK! nearly 4 years after the first messages I've found and it still doesn't look like it works! William On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, William Sutton wrote: > Yup, as you guessed we don't have gatekeepers. I'll pass the idea along, > but in the meantime I have to work with the status quo. > > William > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Mike M wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:43:40PM -0400, William Sutton wrote: > > > Well, since the CVS repository is being used by the people writing the > > > code (not as a documentation bank or whatever), the anonymous access isn't > > > important (plus I have a sneaking suspicion that $WORK wouldn't like > > > anonymous checkouts in any case). So, we're stuck with usernames. > > > > Taking a lesson from open source projects, only a handful of people > > have commit priviledges. Everyone else submits patches that get > > reviewed, accepted, and committed by the inner core. If you're > > not already set up in that configuration, then programmer ego will > > prevent it from being implemented. All programmers think they should > > be allow to personally commit their precious brainchildren to the > > repository :-). > > > > (I am an ex-corporate programmer trying to think and act like and > > open source programmer.) > > > > > > All of this is going on inside a vpn, so the only people that will be > > > hacking plaintext passwords will be people inside the vpn (theoretically > > > all employees). > > > > Much safeness here. > > > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
