Re: password protect a directory?

2000-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Mr. Strockbine wrote: is there a way to password protect a directory? for instance there is a single ftp account on a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its shared amoung several users. Is it possible for one user to password protect a directory so the other users cannot view

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-31 Thread Brian May
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself If you're looking at single-user work, my understanding is kmself that the licensing stuff doesn't really kick in. Though kmself single-user BitKeeper is a bit like having a one-seat kmself arena. It pretty much defeats the

BitKeeper (was Re: password protect a directory?)

2000-10-31 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:28:59PM +1100, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself If you're looking at single-user work, my understanding is kmself that the licensing stuff doesn't really kick in. Though kmself single-user

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bm I think the point I am trying to make, is that this information bm which gets logged is only going to cause confusion, created in an bm unscalable manner (ie. what happens if two projects happen to have bm the same name?), and doesn't benefit

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Brendan Cully [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is BitKeeper? Is it DFSG? What are the benefits of it over CVS for more complex organisations? bc It's Larry McVoy's source management system, which he has been pushing bc on linux-kernel for quite some time, and which does sound nice.

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread Brian May
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself http://www.bitkeeper.com/ Thanks for this... kmself BitKeeper is a scalable configuration management system, kmself supporting globally distributed development, disconnected kmself operation, compressed repositories, change

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread Brian May
Paul == Paul D Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul With BitKeeper you get the source, you can modify the Paul source, and you can freely distribute the Paul modifications--with two caveats. The first is that all Paul modified source you distribute must still pass their Paul

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bm which restricts what you are allowed to modify... Indeed. As I said, no one is claiming it's DFSG-compliant. However, you _can_ modify almost all the code. That is, you can fix bugs, add new features, etc. You just can't change that one area.

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:57:19PM +1100, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: - I currently use CVS for projects that aren't open-source (eg. my Thesis, in LaTeX format), that aren't really commercial (I never intend to make any money from it),

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread USM Bish
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 05:51:39PM -0800, Shandar Ahmad wrote: changing permissions to 000 effetively protects a directory. Nifty ! 'chmod 000' ... this does ring bells ! AFAIK chmod 000 effectively removes all r, w and x permissions for that directory. The ls command and programs like mc

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-30 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:39:58PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: http://www.bitkeeper.com/ BitKeeper is a scalable configuration management system, supporting globally distributed development, disconnected operation, compressed repositories, change sets, and named lines of development

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread Brian May
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Where n 0 people need modification access to the same kmself data, a version control system should be implemented. RCS kmself and CVS are available on Debian and their use is fairly kmself transparent. For more complex

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread Brendan Cully
On Monday, 30 October 2000 at 09:00, Brian May wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Where n 0 people need modification access to the same kmself data, a version control system should be implemented. RCS kmself and CVS are available on Debian and their

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread kmself
on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:00:00AM +1100, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Where n 0 people need modification access to the same kmself data, a version control system should be implemented. RCS kmself and CVS are

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-29 Thread Shandar Ahmad
changing permissions to 000 effetively protects a directory. You might even want to do a chown to a dummy user for this purpose. Shandar __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/

password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread Mr. Strockbine
is there a way to password protect a directory? for instance there is a single ftp account on a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its shared amoung several users. Is it possible for one user to password protect a directory so the other users cannot view the contents? - greg s.

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: is there a way to password protect a directory? for instance there is a single ftp account on a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its shared amoung several users. Is it possible for one user to password protect

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:41:10PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: is there a way to password protect a directory? for instance there is a single ftp account on a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread Andrew Hagen
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:12:27 -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: is there a way to password protect a directory? [ ... ] The UNIX security model hasn't traditionally worked like this. The other replies have some good ideas on how to implement the same things along traditional UNIX lines. This raises

Re: password protect a directory?

2000-10-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Mr. Strockbine wrote: is there a way to password protect a directory? for instance there is a single ftp account on a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its shared amoung several users. Is it possible for one user to password protect