Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:54:17 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@freebsdportal.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to access CVS remotely Message-ID: <20020104195417.Z38258@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020104113137.A49092@freebsdportal.com> References: <20020104113137.A49092@freebsdportal.com>
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> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:31:37 -0500
> From: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@freebsdportal.com>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: How to access CVS remotely
>
> Hi:
>
> At my company we have a CVS repository set up at location A.
> We have people that need to be able to commit to the repository
> at location B. We also have people that need to be able
> to retrieve data from the repository at location C.
>
> The problem I encountered when setting this up is that everyone
> needed to have an account at location A to access CVS.
> (This limitation is probably because we use the
> 'cvs -d remotehost' method and rsh to access the repository.)
i'm not sure about this access method, but you surely don't need to
have system account on a CVS box to be able to use the repo.
> This was tolerable for IT. Then we discovered that not only
> did they need accounts at A, they needed to belong to the 'cvs'
> group. Even those at location C because performing a remote
> update did a lock on the repository and they needed permissions
> to do the lock.
depends. you can configure CVS to store the lockfiles elsewhere.
> I know there has to be a way to do an anonymous cvs implementation
> where people can get files remotely (it is done everyday at source
> forge). Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to
> do this?
>
> Also, for those that need to have commit privilages, can this be done
> via password or some other authentication and not require them to have
> an account at location A?
yes. unfortunately, I'm no expert, and it's been some time since I
toyed with the administration side of CVS (other than that, I do cvs
up, cvs diff, cvs ci all day long).
I suggest you to read Karl Fogel's book at
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
and also the Cederquist at
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/
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