David Leskovac writes:
>
> None of the developers are malicious. The problem came up
> because on 3 separate occasions, a developer who is not
> very familiar with CVS somehow deleted 3 active branches.
That's much less likely with current releases of CVS since it now
refuses to disturb existing
Dave,
> restricting who is allowed to do certain cvs commands? In
> particular, we would like to restrict who can create/delete
> tags & branch tags. Is it possible to restrict 'cvs tag' &
> 'cvs rtag' on a user or group level?
>
If you can switch to CVSNT (free, GPL, just like CVS) for Linux
> Install cvs in a different place than the version you are using.
>
> Make a script named cvs in the current location of cvs. That
> script should check the cvs commands vs. valid users. If
> everything is OK, then it should invoke the new cvs in the
> new place with the arguments passed to it.
have "x" permissions.
-chris
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>To: info-cvs@gnu.org
>Subject: Restricting use of 'cvs rtag' &
Install cvs in a different place than the version you are using.
Make a script named cvs in the current location of cvs. That script should
check the cvs commands vs. valid users. If everything is OK, then it should
invoke the new cvs in the new place with the arguments passed to it.
This won't p
David Leskovac wrote:
[...]
> Is it possible to restrict 'cvs tag' &
> 'cvs rtag' on a user or group level?
taginfo should help:
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.19/cvs_18.html#SEC177
You should be able to get the login name from $USER, $LOGNAME, or some such
means.
--
Jim Hyslop
S
[I sent this msg 10 days ago & noone responded. So, I'm trying again.]
Hello,
We are currently using an ancient version of CVS (1.11.1p1) on a rather old
Linux server (Red Hat 6). I intend to upgrade to CVS 1.11.19 & eventually
upgrade the Linux OS. In the course of our CVS upgrade discussion w
Hello,
We are currently using an ancient version of CVS (1.11.1p1) on a rather old
Linux server (Red Hat 6). I intend to upgrade to CVS 1.11.19 & eventually
upgrade the Linux OS. In the course of our CVS upgrade discussion we started
discussing how to increase security with regards to CVS acce