You know the debian install of CVS seems to run cvs as root. Maybe I am misinteprating this but how I would like to set this up to run as a lower priviledged user any help there? -ryan
> On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 04:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have a stable/testing/unstable mix of a woody system running with the >> 2.4.24 kernel. I have installed cvs version 1.11.1p1debian-9. For >> local >> users cvs seems to function fully including remotely through pserver. I >> am trying to add cvs users that are non system users, but I can't figure >> out how to do it. I thought you did like cvs passwd -a username but >> that >> doesn't seem to be an option. I also looked at the >> adduser-plugin-cvsaccess module but that didn't seem to do anything for >> me >> either. Any help much appreciated -ryan > > I am using the pserver option with CVS and the CVSROOT in /var/lib/cvs > and this is what I did. > > - Make sure /etc/services included a line saying: > cvspserver 2401/udp > - Added the following line to /etc/inetd.conf: > cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs \ > --allow-root=/var/lib/cvs pserver > - Create the file /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/passwd > - To add a user to that file: > htpasswd -n <username> >> /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/passwd > (then append ":cvs" to the end of each line in that file, to make all > files owned by user cvs) > - Change the environment variable CVSROOT to: > CVSROOT=:pserver:<username>@localhost:/var/lib/cvs > - cvs login > > Olle > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
