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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:36:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        scott@statsci.com, jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PRCS (was Re: CVS Branches hits again!)
Message-ID:  <199707101636.SAA04311@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: Mikael Karpberg's message of Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:55:24 %2B0200 (CEST)
References:  <199707101415.HAA14077@knife.statsci.com> <199707101555.RAA11530@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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> 
> According to Scott Blachowicz:
> > Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> > 
> > > > [ PRCS ]
> > > > 
> > > > > Some things it yet lacks are:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 1) a client server environment
> > > > 
> > > > Becoming more important as FreeBSD developers are now starting to use
> > > > it.
> > > 
> > > This is currently my first priority.  I've kept pretty quiet and not
> > > pushed PRCS in too many places because of this, but spoke up now because
> > > I figure PRCS would be no worse than CVS since people seem to be using
> > > CVSup.  
> > 
> > Well...for me, the client/server stuff has been pretty handy.  I have a few
> > small repositories that I maintain at work, but work on at home occasionally.
> > It's handy to be able to specify things so that syncing with the remote
> > repository goes through a ssh tunnel as opposed to requiring some form of NFS
> > access or maintaing a copy of my _repository_.
> 
> Speaking of this client/server thing. If you have a repository on one
> machine and have a lot of developers that you want to give access into
> the repository, but NOT into the machine otherwise, how do you do?

Trivially - by setting the shell of the users in question to point at
a file containing only

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/cvs server

(Not actually tested, but I've done similar things)

Eivind.



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