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

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

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

2004-05-03 Thread Paul Levin
I had this same problem with OpenSSH. For $30 I purchased WinSSHD from BitVise - www.bitvise.com . It works great, each CVS transaction is correctly labeled with the user who did it, and Bit Vise has excellent email tech support. Paul Tim Grotenhuis wrote: I have cvs running on a shared box at m

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

2004-05-01 Thread Pierre Asselin
TG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the issue: I noticed that the name of the committer for each > file that I committed was unix account id, or the one that is used to > SSH into the cvs machine. Now I have multiple developers(committers) > and ONLY ONE shared shell account on the machine w

Need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

2004-05-01 Thread Tim Grotenhuis
I have cvs running on a shared box at my isp.  They don't allowpserver to run and port 2401 is closed to the outside, and besides Iam much more comfortable with the security of SSH.So I set up access using SSH.  I created a key pair, and put thepublic key in the authorized_keys2 file.  I set

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

2004-05-01 Thread TG
I have cvs running on a shared box at my isp. They don't allow pserver to run and port 2401 is closed to the outside, and besides I am much more comfortable with the security of SSH. So I set up access using SSH. I created a key pair, and put the public key in the authorized_keys2 file. I set u