On 25 Set, 22:01, Todd Denniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you use CVSNT you might get answers, we don't know about, by using their > mailing lists:http://www.cvsnt.org/ > newsgroup:http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt > or > news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt
I thougth it was a general CVS related question, not specific of the system in use (the communication protocol and sytax seemed to me to be the same...), so I hoped to find answer here, too. Anyway I will try also there! :-) > > Questions: > > - is it possible to specify an user name (and password) at commit > > time, regardless of the username that has been used to checkout the > > module? > > Sort of. > You did not specify your connection method pserver for the moment, just becouse I had some problem configuring ssh access on the windows server... >nor if you could have more than one > user on the server yes, I can configure as amany users I want... and I dont'n need hundreds! :-) > so I assume any connection method can be used and you can > put users on the server. Perfect > 1) If you can use ssh access, the user name on the server does not have to > match the user on the client end, setup ssh(putty)/cvs to make it's > connections with user name set to the appropriate value. > > 2) Although pserver has security issues (read the list for details if you want > them), I believe it can be setup with "virtual" cvs users, i.e., user names > cvs knows about instead of the system. I am not sure but I suspect it will > use those user names in the logs instead of the generic user it is running > under. I don't know if pserver will work with a windows (CVSNT) server. > > > - do you know any client that could be configured to ask for this at > > each committ operation? or should each users learn command-line usage > > of cvs? > > NO. > > > - in case the solution I proposed is not feasible, do you have any > > suggestion/workaround/trick to track who made some change to a file > > even if it has been done on a common machine under a common account? > > I think you should be able to setup individual user accounts on the server and > connect using ssh, in this way the users can specify their user name and be > required to prove it with the correct authentication data (password or key). If I correctly understood, you are telling me that: - yes, I can perform commit operations with an user name different from that used to check-out the module (so a can change username for each commit operation) - I should be able to do that by command line simply specifyng the username at commit time. Implementation details depend on connection method - you don't know any "graphical" client that can be configured to ask for an user name at each commit operation rigth? Thanks again Giacomo
