[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt configuration on Linux server - help request

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Fri Dec 17 23:53:20 GMT 2004


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Dianne Chen wrote:
>>So PServer configuration must be done, but it is not
>>the same as :pserver:  . Ok. It's good to know the
>>history of that.

Note that you can disable the pserver protocol by deleting the 
pserver_protocol.so file in the cvsnt install directory.

/usr/local/lib/cvsnt/pserver_protocol.so

(at least that works under Windows -- CVSNT is set up to see the file is 
not there, then fail it gracefully).

>>
>>For wiki section 1.4.1 the actual /etc/xinetd.d/cvs
>>file looks like this, which does not look like the
>>example in the wiki. I'll assume that the wiki is
>>out
>>of date (i.e., no longer need a reference to group,
>>log_type, and env)? Correct?

I'm not sure about those options or what they default to (it's entirely 
possible that they default to the differences).  It's probably just fine.

>>Regarding section 1.7 then, I'll wait for additional
>>Linux-savy users to respond, but I'm guessing groups
>>need to be added like:
>>  cvsuser
>>  cvsadmin
>>
>>and then the group for the repository would be, um,
>>cvsuser, and an owner specified (cvsuser who belongs
>>to group cvsuser?). Right? 

With my setup the owner is the last person who modified that file, but 
it's the group that's important (thus the sticky bit on it).

You can control commit authority with the CVS ACL system.  For example:
   cvs chacl -u adminuser -a read,write,create,tag,control
   cvs chacl -a read,nowrite,nocreate,notag,nocontrol
...to prevent everyone but adminuser from writing to those.

Tony -- In case you're reading this far, is there a shortcut way to 
'deny all' or what is the best way to secure CVSROOT from regular users? 
  noread?

Then use an admins file directly in the CVSROOT on the repository (not 
under source control, see the wiki docs) to control who has admin 
command authority.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Starrett



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