Re: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:00:35PM -0500 Jim.Hyslop wrote: In order to minimize the impact on the users, we took the original server off-line just long enough to create the tarball. As soon as the tar was complete, we restarted the server in read-only mode (create an empty

Unnamed Branch Label

2004-02-03 Thread Ofir Cohen
Hello, I've encountered a strange thing! When I'm looking at a file's log in smartCVS (same as status) I see it under an unnamed branch label. How can I remove this ghost branch with CVS? Does CVS still refer to it as a branch? Or is it transparent? Kind regards, Ofir Cohen. Software Engineer.

Unnamed Branch Label

2004-02-03 Thread Ofir Cohen
Hello, I've encountered a strange thing! When I'm looking at a file's log in smartCVS (same as status) I see it under an unnamed branch label. How can I remove this ghost branch with CVS? Does CVS still refer to it as a branch? Or is it transparent? Kind regards, Ofir Cohen. Software Engineer.

Re: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spiro Trikaliotis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, * On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:00:35PM -0500 Jim.Hyslop wrote: In order to minimize the impact on the users, we took the original server off-line just long enough to create the tarball. As

CVS Newbie: List of modules?

2004-02-03 Thread Alex
Hi there, I am accessing files on CVS using pserver. cvs -d :pserver:xxx checkout ProjectName The project has been branched and I am not sure what the branch names are. Is there a command to get a branch list? Regards, Alex. ___ Info-cvs

CVS newbie

2004-02-03 Thread Colin Chalmers
Hi all, disclaimer I have to admit that I am a newbie to the CVS world, I have worked with VSS and CVS client software but never actually setting up the (CVS) server. Therefore my apologies beforehand for any questions that may seem obvious to others! /disclaimer We have installed CVS 1.11.16 on

RE: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
David R. Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering what minor problems you had, just in case they might pertain to other peoples' migration strategies (or my own someday)? Well, our situation was much more complex than Courier's. Not only did we upgrade the server hardware, we went

RE: CVS Newbie: List of modules?

2004-02-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am accessing files on CVS using pserver. cvs -d :pserver:xxx checkout ProjectName The project has been branched and I am not sure what the branch names are. Is there a command to get a branch list? There are at least two ways to do it, both of

RE: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Spiro Trikaliotis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not that I would recommend it, but: But about 1. Taking the CVS repository offline 2. Create the tarball 3. Take the CVS repository online with full access (!) 4. do anything needed to move to the new server 5. When everything is

Re: CVS with SMB/Winbind Authentication

2004-02-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:07:33PM -0500, Dave Morrow wrote: Thanks for replying.the only thing I am seeing in the logs (of relevance) is a line in the /var/log/secure cvs: password mismatch for adms_nt+morrowd: xxPHiHjG0rmeM vs. x Hmmm. That sounds like your auth config is pointing at

Summarize: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Courier
Well, I would like to extended my thanks to: Jim Hyslop, Mark D. Baushke and David R. Chase. I am appreciate that you guys take time to respond. 1. I will setting up a newer server with the same name and the same /Repository file system as the old one. 2. Notify to all my users that CVS server

Re: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello Jim, * On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:28:59AM -0500 Jim.Hyslop wrote: Spiro Trikaliotis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not that I would recommend it, but: [...] Would this make sense, or could 6. break something that was made with 4.? That would work, as long as nobody checked

CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Pankaj Garg
I am a new user of CVS. I setup CVS server on my linux box. I want two users to have check-in access to my repository and i want to use SSH. To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now because these two users have shell account and have write access to my repository, they can

RE: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Pankaj Garg wrote: I am a new user of CVS. I setup CVS server on my linux box. I want two users to have check-in access to my repository and i want to use SSH. To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now because these two users have shell account and have write

RE: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew . Riechers
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pankaj Garg Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CVS security question To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now because these two users

Re: Summarize: CVS server upgrade?

2004-02-03 Thread Larry Jones
Courier writes: 3. Then take old server off line, then tar its Repository. 4. Connecting these two server by Crossover CAT5 for cp and untar new Repository. You minimize the downtime by connecting the two machines first then running the two tars in parallel through a remote shell:

Re: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Larry Jones
Pankaj Garg writes: I am a new user of CVS. I setup CVS server on my linux box. I want two users to have check-in access to my repository and i want to use SSH. To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now because these two users have shell account and have write access

Re: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pankaj Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a new user of CVS. I setup CVS server on my linux box. I want two users to have check-in access to my repository and i want to use SSH. To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now

Deleting from CVS repository

2004-02-03 Thread RAJAGOPAL, AARTI (SBCSI)
Hello all, I may be posting this question to the wrong list, just thought I'd give it a shot in case anyone knew?? We have Eclipse/WSAD clients accessing our CVS server on AIX. When you delete projects/files from Eclipse, files seem to goto the Attic folder on the actual repository, but projects

cvs checkout of files edited by user since date?

2004-02-03 Thread Rhodes, Phillip C.
Hi, Is there a way that I can do a cvs checkout of a module with only the files that have been edited by a particular user, since a particular date? Thanks! Phillip ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: cvs checkout of files edited by user since date?

2004-02-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Rhodes, Phillip C. wrote: Is there a way that I can do a cvs checkout of a module with only the files that have been edited by a particular user, since a particular date? By date, yes; by user, no. See http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.7/cvs_16.html#SEC118 for details. Checking out

Re: cvs checkout of files edited by user since date?

2004-02-03 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rhodes, Phillip C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way that I can do a cvs checkout of a module with only the files that have been edited by a particular user, since a particular date? No, not without doing manul single-file checkouts or

How to determine what tag a branch was based on?

2004-02-03 Thread Dickson, Craig
Title: How to determine what tag a branch was based on? Here is the scenario: Sometime in the past I created a Branch based on a tag that existed on the files on my main branch. Now I need to go back and find out exactly which tag was used as the base of the branch. Is there a way to

RE: How to determine what tag a branch was based on?

2004-02-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Dickson, Craig wrote: Here is the scenario: Sometime in the past I created a Branch based on a tag that existed on the files on my main branch. Now I need to go back and find out exactly which tag was used as the base of the branch. Is there a way to determine this conclusively? Our

RE: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Mark Jaffe
You can prevent a user from logging in by setting the shell variable in the /etc/password file to a nonexistent shell. This will allow authorization, but not allow login. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pankaj Garg Sent: Tuesday,

RE: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Rick Genter
It's probably more secure to set their shell to something that does exist but won't function as a shell, like /dev/null or /bin/false. That way you don't leave a hole where someone could create the non-existent program that the user points to and voila - instant access. -- Rick Genter Sr.

RE: How to determine what tag a branch was based on?

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew Doar
cvs history -T works nicely on later versions to show when the tag was made., ~Matt On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:15, Jim.Hyslop wrote: Dickson, Craig wrote: Here is the scenario: Sometime in the past I created a Branch based on a tag that existed on the files on my main branch. Now I need

Re: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Pankaj Garg
I wonder why do we not CVS has a server which run with SUID (Super User ID) and only it can access repository. Other users can login via SSH, verify their credentials with our CVS Server and ask CVS Server to carry out their requests. They can request normal repository operations based on their

RE: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Patton, Matthew E., CTR, OSD-PAE
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED -Original Message- From: Pankaj Garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SSH. To use SSH i need to make shell accounts for those two users. yes and no. if their repository permissions are the same then make a fake shell user to represent the persons and then put

Re: CVS security question

2004-02-03 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pankaj Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder why do we not CVS has a server which run with SUID (Super User ID) and only it can access repository. Other users can login via SSH, verify their credentials with our CVS Server and ask CVS Server to