[Cvsnt] aliasing as Admin

Arvind Raman arvind_raman_tech at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 18 14:25:49 GMT 2002


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Hi Bo and others,
Well I have still not been able to settle the
administrative rights issue on the database and to my
misfortune also found the following mentioned in the
"Cederqvist" manual: "On NT, the cvsadmin feature does
not exist and all users can run cvs admin."
Is there a work around it? Does this mean there can be
no administrator for a CVS database setup on a NT
server.
As you said Bo I did create a "admin" file in the
CVSROOT directory. I am using the ntserver protocol
and use the network PDC (Primary Domain Controller)
for authentication. I am sure that the client server
setup is correct for I am able to do all the day to
day work free of any hassles. It is in this
environment that I want administrative rights on the
database. What I can think of as of now is to be the
sole user to have NTFS write permissions to the
CVSROOT directory. I am not sure of the other issues
that this might arise. Would it be possible for the
other users to contine their normal activities without
having any permissions (read, write whatsoever) to the
CVSROOT directory.

Thanks and regards
Arvind

--- Bo Berglund <Bo.Berglund at system3r.se> wrote:
> OK, this is a security file like passwd so it is not
> among the files that
> get created automatically and which are checked out
> when you cvs co CVSROOT.
>
> You must use your favourite editor and create a file
> by this naem yourself.
> Put a list of names (one each line) like in the
> passwd file, except only user
> names are needed here.
>
> Save as CVSROOT/admin
>
> /Bo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arvind Raman
> [mailto:arvind_raman_tech at yahoo.com]
> Sent: den 18 mars 2002 11:57
> To: CVSNT
> Subject: RE: [Cvsnt] aliasing as Admin
>
>
> Hi
> I went thru the list of files under the CVSROOT
> directory but couldn't find a file named admin.
> I even enabled the "show hidden files option" but
> still couldn't find the admin file.
> I am not sure what needs to be done to get
> administartive priviliges on the database.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Arvind
>
>
>
> --- Bo Berglund <Bo.Berglund at system3r.se> wrote:
> > I am not really sure about that, but I have seen
> > mention of a special
> > file CVSROOT/admin which contains a list of users
> > who are granted the
> > permission to operate as repository admins and
> thus
> > add/modify the
> > passwd file.
> > If this is so I guess that by adding the intended
> > users to such a file
> > should do the trick.
> >
> > This comes from a recent post by Tony Hoyle,
> talking
> > about the admin file:
> >
> > "Looking at the current code it seems to require a
> > linefeed at the end of
> > the last name (otherwise it misses it).  That's a
> > bug that'll probably
> > end up as a FAQ if I don't fix it :-)"
> >
> > /Bo
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arvind Raman
> > [mailto:arvind_raman_tech at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: den 18 mars 2002 08:11
> > To: Cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> > Subject: [Cvsnt] aliasing as Admin
> >
> >
> > How do we create an administrative login for a CVS
> > database.
> > Is there a way on setting that "an user and only
> > this
> > user" could have administrative rights on the
> > database. For instance he is the only person who
> can
> > add and delete users and change passwords for the
> > users.
> > Early today in Bo Berglund email I read that one
> > could
> > alias as an admin. Could anybody elaborate on
> that.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Arvind
> >
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