preliminary ACL support in cvs-nserver

2001-09-29 Thread Alexey Mahotkin
Hello, ACL support in CVS has always been rather hot topic. There are AFAIK several alternative implementations of this, and there is an option of using the filesystem-level ACLs. We've did another implementation, hopefully more generic than every other (by coincidence, it also supports SSL).

Re: preliminary ACL support in cvs-nserver

2001-09-29 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On , September 30, 2001 at 04:28:16 (+0400), Alexey Mahotkin wrote: ] Subject: preliminary ACL support in cvs-nserver Answer: because the cvs-nserver ACL implementation does not work on a per-file level. Do you understand the unix filesystem security model, especially as it applies to

Re: Howto solve this in cvs ?

2001-09-29 Thread Gerhard Ahuis
Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ On Friday, September 28, 2001 at 16:34:19 (+), Gerhard Ahuis wrote: ] Subject: Howto solve this in cvs ? The vendor did a complete architecture change and cleanup between 2.x and 3.x. So I created a branch called MySoftBasedOn_2x on which further

Re: CVS access control

2001-09-29 Thread Tobias Brox
[Greg A. Woods - Fri at 08:53:50PM -0400] (so far as I know no bank issues personal browser security certificates and configures their secure servers to only accept connections from browsers presenting valid, signed, certificates that would at least get rid of perhaps half the concerns I

Re: Need Help -- Please

2001-09-29 Thread Tobias Brox
[Olaf Meding - Fri at 04:58:45PM -0500] Why would I get the below error message? cvs checkout: move away dir/file; it is in the way If I remember correctly, you have some file or directory that has the same name as the file you want to check out. Try this: cd /tmp mkdir

CVSROOT

2001-09-29 Thread raptor
hi, I'm tring to set : CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/cvs export CVSROOT But I'm still getting errors when I try to login !!! Nowehre in the docs is mentioned, does CVSROOT set only the ROOT-cvs dir or it can set the access method info too !?! = iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CVSROOT

2001-09-29 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:57:41AM +0300, raptor wrote: I'm tring to set : CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/cvs export CVSROOT But I'm still getting errors when I try to login !!! Nowehre in the docs is mentioned, does CVSROOT set only the ROOT-cvs dir or it can set the access

Re: CVSROOT

2001-09-29 Thread raptor
I mean I can't see where is written what exactly CVSROOT can accept as a value i.e. does this mean U can set : CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/cvs or just : CVSROOT=/path/to/cvs that I was have in mind... cheers | On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:57:41AM +0300, raptor wrote: | I'm tring

Re: CVSROOT

2001-09-29 Thread Matthias Kranz
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 03:15:04PM +0300, raptor wrote: I mean I can't see where is written what exactly CVSROOT can accept as a value i.e. does this mean U can set : CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/cvs or just : CVSROOT=/path/to/cvs Ok, the environment variable CVSROOT is

Re: Problems with -f option and checkout

2001-09-29 Thread Larry Jones
John McNamara writes: If the tag doesn't exist at all, CVS assumes that you've made a mistake and so doesn't do anything. After all, if the tag doesn't exist at all, why are you specifying it with -f instead of just checking out the head? So what is the intended function of the -f

Re: CVS access control

2001-09-29 Thread James Youngman
Tobias Brox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, at least I've been in a situation where it could be meaningful - we wanted a lot of independent developers to have the right to commit to an experimental branch, while the stable branch only should be touched by some highly trusted person. Thus we

No such user !

2001-09-29 Thread boxfly
Hi, I've got a stange error message with cvs. How did I install it: I installed it with apt-get from my Debian. 1) /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream tcp nowait.400 root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver --allow-root=/var/lib/cvs 2) ls -l /var/lib drwxrwsr-x3 root

Re: How To Backup All of CVS?

2001-09-29 Thread Dennis Jones
You need everything starting at $CVSROOT. Note that $CVSROOT is NOT the same thing as the CVSROOT directory in the repository. CVSROOT is, in fact, a sub-directory of $CVSROOT: $CVSROOT (where $CVSROOT might be defined as, /vol/cvs [for example]) \CVSROOT \ other repository directories

Re: No such user !

2001-09-29 Thread boxfly
boxfly wrote: Hi, I've got a stange error message with cvs. How did I install it: I installed it with apt-get from my Debian. 1) /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream tcp nowait.400 root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver --allow-root=/var/lib/cvs 2) ls -l /var/lib