Re: Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

2004-05-05 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 10:26:24 (+0100), Keith Refson wrote: ] > Subject: Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account > > I'm making a great efford not to be sarcastic in this response. There's > a genuine argument to be made h

Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

2004-05-05 Thread Keith Refson
I'm making a great efford not to be sarcastic in this response. There's a genuine argument to be made here and I hope that there may be one or two readers who can be convinced by reasonable debate. I'm not interested in just having an argument, but in making a case. Greg Woods wrote: I just can

Re: Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH

2004-05-04 Thread Larry Jones
Keith Refson writes: > > I suspect this attitude may be born of an ignorance of how > SSH works and what it is capable of. On the contrary, I know quite well what SSH is capable of. But people do run CVS without using SSH, you know, and the environment is normally under the control of the *user*

Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

2004-05-04 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ someone wrote: ] > Subject: Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account > > I just can't imagine that this hasn't been required before: a single shell > account with a used id of, for example, 'cvsuser' requiring SSH, inste

Re: Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

2004-05-04 Thread Mark D. Baushke
<#part sign=pgp [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Keith Refson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Tim Grotenhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just can't imagine that this hasn't been required before: a > > single shell account with a used id of, for example, 'cvsuser' > > requiring SSH, instead of pserver,

Fw: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

2004-05-04 Thread Keith Refson
"Tim Grotenhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can also use $HOME/.ssh/environment on the client side to tunnel environment variables of your choice. I've never tried it myself, I just saw that in the ssh man page. (Your developers would be able to cheat, though.) The trouble is, CVS doesn't