error occurs

2001-06-23 Thread Srinivas S
Title: error occurs hello, i checked out a module using WinCVS. but when i try to commit the changes i get the following error. pls help me to solve this. cvs -z9 commit -m changes done by srinivas USP_OPI_CancelItn.usp (in directory D:\OPI\opi) Checking in USP_OPI_CancelItn.usp;

differenting cvs users privileges

2001-06-23 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hi, i have used CVS for some time, i believe successfully. I mean it satisfied my needs. But now i am tring to set up somewhat more elaborated CVS repositoire and i got stuck :( What i have in mind is a sinlge repository, accessable over pserver and CVS users are not native UNIX users. Under

Re: HELP! I've shot myself in the foot!

2001-06-23 Thread Tomki
Do be certain you want to remove all the items mentioned. Then run these two commands to remove each. Those are not single-quote marks, they are backtics. /bin/rm -rf `find /path/to/the/head/of/your/problem/directory -name #cvs.lock` /bin/rm -rf `find

Re: CVS Setup Help Needed

2001-06-23 Thread Peter Ajamian
Matt Keyes wrote: On the same note (but a little OT), how can I cut and paste from vi (I want to cut the encrypted password from /etc/passwd and put it in the cvspasswd file (whatever its called... I'm not at home so I can't look at it)? That depends on the interface or client you use to

Re: differenting cvs users privileges

2001-06-23 Thread Imre Oolberg
Hi again! I did some more investigation and found out that some security-conscious people run pserver as unprivileged UNIX system user. As simply as putting into /etc/inetd.conf something like cvspserver stream tcp nowait cvs /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f \ --allow-root=/home/cvs/proj1-repository \

Re: differenting cvs users privileges

2001-06-23 Thread Mark
--- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want multiple projects in one repository while controling access on the project level, you will have to have a different group for each project directory structure. Either the user's unix id has to be in the proper group for the project (pserver as

Re: differenting cvs users privileges

2001-06-23 Thread Mark
--- Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So all files will be strictly owned by this UNIX user cvs. The home directory of this user is obvious a place to put under all the repositories. Repository corresponds in this setup to a project. And /home/cvs could be given 700 rights. So no-one