On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:50:41PM -0700, John Daues wrote: > In the CVS manual, in section 2.9.2 Connecting with rsh, it says: > --- > For example, suppose you are the user `mozart' on the local machine > `toe.example.com', and the server machine is `faun.example.org'. On > faun, put the following line into the file `.rhosts' in `bach''s home > directory: > > toe.example.com mozart > > Then test that `rsh' is working with > > rsh -l bach faun.example.org 'echo $PATH' > --- > Should the 2 occurences of "bach" be replaced with "mozart"? > (or vice-versa). If not, who is bach?
Arnold. > (there's a setup for a joke) Ok, so I had to bite. Seriously, the names should *not* be replaced. "bach" is the repo's owner, on faun. You can connect via rsh to a repo on a machine where your username is spelled differently, and the example is constructed to demonstrate that. A better choice of names might have been "bach" and "jsb", to suggest that they're the same person. It's also possible to use this capability in the way the example implies -- to let entirely different people all access the repo using the same login on the server. Whether you *should* set things up that way is a matter for serious -- indeed, extended, recurring, and flame-prone -- debate. I don't blame you for being confused. The example never says who "bach" is; you have to infer it. I'll be sending a patch for that to bug-cvs in a minute. -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, because a machine I have never heard of has crashed. - Leslie Lamport _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs