From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 8:58:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9441D37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:58:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B289443ED8 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4269269; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:58:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5D4EB2FDC6D; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:58:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:58:06 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Zhi Cheng Wang Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: protecting cvs repository Message-ID: <20030124165806.GM86853@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Zhi Cheng Wang , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" References: <82E7759E5C86D511A01D0000F8785533CB802F@lancelot> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <82E7759E5C86D511A01D0000F8785533CB802F@lancelot> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # ZWang@PICR.man.ac.uk / 2003-01-24 16:15:05 -0000: > From: Zhi Cheng Wang > To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" > Subject: protecting cvs repository > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:15:05 -0000 > > Hi > > does cvsweb have the ability to ask for username and passwd if web users are > trying to browse the repository? i have done this in an ugly way by creating > a subdir and put the cvsweb.cgi under this subdir, then in httpd.conf to > protect this subdir using http authentication. > > is there a better way to achieve this? do you need a feature this setup doesn't provide? i don't know about cvsweb, but i do know that Chora (www.horde.org) can authenticate users. also, take a look at ViewCVS. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message