On 21 Apr 2007, at 6:57 am, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I know that the page for rssh already says that you're not  
> particularly
> interested in adding support for new programs to the package, so I  
> fully
> expect the answer to this to be no.  We've just had two wishlist  
> bugs on
> the Debian package of rssh for a while, and I wasn't sure if the  
> requests
> had ever been raised here in case they did sound interesting.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284756 is a request
> for Subversion support, very similar to the existing CVS support  
> except
> through svnserve instead.  svnserve is a bit better designed than  
> CVS's
> server mode and the support should be fairly simple.  This is the most
> compelling one for me since it's very close to the existing CVS  
> support
> and a lot of CVS sites are switching to Subversion.
>
> There's a patch included in that bug against 2.2.3, but I expect it  
> would
> require some updating for the current version.  If you're  
> interested in
> this, I could probably find some time to update the patch.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323384 is a  
> request for
> passwd support.  The request was to disallow all command-line  
> options so
> the person can only change their own password.  No patch for this one.

There is a patch around that can do this, but it's never been allowed  
into the mainstream sources, for reasons I can't quite remember.  In  
my case, I patched rssh to use yppasswd; that way the actual passwd  
file exists outside the chroot.  The machine is a one-node NIS  
network.  I doubt my patch is useful to you though - I think I made  
various and sundry other changes as well, so I might find it  
difficult to supply you with a clean patch.  Search the past archives  
of this list, and you'll probably find the original passwd patch I  
based my work on.

As you say, svnserve support should be easier, although it requires a  
lot of extra libraries to be inserted into your chroot, if you're  
using that, and some people might be a bit nervous about that.

Tim

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