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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: CVS
From:       developer () wexwarez ! com
Date:       2004-02-21 18:34:07
Message-ID: 34990.63.207.89.138.1077388447.squirrel () 63 ! 207 ! 89 ! 138
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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, developer@wexwarez.com 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
>
>
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