[Cvsnt] Securiting the CVSROOT

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Thu Aug 1 08:09:42 BST 2002


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No, in and of itself the lockdir thing does not secure CVSROOT, but it
is needed when you put an NTFS based security system in place.
I have discussed this isuue a hbit on the following webpage, but there
are other views on how to do it as well from others...

http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85831169/InstallCVSNT.html#UserAccess

/Bo

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 02:35:31 +0000 (UTC), esumerfd at spam.poboxes.com
("Edward Sumerfield") wrote:

>
>Does this make the repository readonly for everyone? How do I define some
>users with read write access?
>
>"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message
>news:3d4781af.35131276 at news.cvsnt.org...
>> For readonly access to CVS you need to create a 'LockDir' directory,
>> preferably 'cvslocks' below the cvstemp directory and set the
>> CVSROOT/config option as follows:
>> LockDir=c:/cvstemp/cvslocks
>> (Of course assuming that the temp dir is in c:/cvstemp)
>>
>> /Bo
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:32:34 +0000 (UTC), esumerfd at spam.poboxes.com
>> ("Edward Sumerfield") wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >I am publishing my CVSNT root out to the web using the jcvslet servlet. I
>> >would like to make the servlet login to CVS using an NT user id that only
>> >has read access to the cvsroot tree.
>> >
>> >When I restrict the disk in this fashion I get an authentication error
>> >claiming no access to cvsroot/CVSROOT/config. I have tried giving the NT
>> >user read and write to this file with no success.
>> >
>> >The only other config was to make sure that the NT user had modify to the
>> >cvstemp dir that the server was configured with.
>> >
>> >Any ideas?
>> >
>> >Ed
>> >
>> >
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>> /Bo
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