Thanks Larry and Jeff,
I learned some from both of your responses, and will definitely be using
aspects of both responses.
For this particular problem, the following seems to give me exactly what I
need:
I have only one unix account: cvsuser...
In CVSROOT/passwd:
user1::cvsuser
user2::cvsuser
use
George Schlitz wrote:
> I am using the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file to store login
> information for
> many users who don't have user accounts on the unix server.
>
> Here are some examples:
> user1:rFw.zb2Ewn6..:cvsuser
> user2:Mb3Czoc1zMBrU:cvsuser
> user3:Mb3Czoc1zMBrU:cvsuser
>
> I am usin
Schlitz writes:
>
> I am using several administrative files (taginfo, commitinfo et. al.) to
> kick off scripts to perform various kinds of validation.
> In this example, $USER always expands to "cvsuser" in these scripts. Is
> there any way to determine the login name- for example, I want to de
