[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

[William Sutton]

Actually, I was hoping for more from that link than the suggestion to use 
samba...

this looks more promising, but I haven't had a chance to read through it 
yet...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2001-08/msg00838.html

William

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, William Sutton wrote:

> Right...old system used sspi with our nt domain accounts to a system 
> running w2k.  new system is designed to use corporate single-signon 
> accounts (mine is william_sutton) and have them authenticated on a linux 
> server via ldap.  I have no idea how that side of the mechanism works, 
> just that (supposedly) it does :)
> 
> I have, of course, the cvsadmin acct to access it for setup, but I'm not 
> about to let everybody and their dog use it to check in/out code.
> 
> I've emailed the person who set up the server inquiring as to just what 
> they think I should be using for authentication.
> 
> Now that I'm done replying, I'm going to go read that url about how this 
> is nontrivial (heh, wish I'd known that yesterday) and eat some lunch
> 
> William
> 
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tom Bryan wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 01:12 pm, Mike M wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:38:11PM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> > > > right..
> > > >
> > > > the tree looks like
> > > >
> > > > /home
> > > >     /cvsadmin
> > > >         /cvsroot
> > > >             /CVSROOT
> > > >                 modules
> > > >                 ...
> > > >             /mymodule
> > > >                 ...
> > > >
> > > > so I would have figured that I wanted /home/cvsadmin/cvsroot ...
> > >
> > > yup.
> > >
> > > hmmm. no account on the CVS repository server. If you don't have
> > > an account on the CVS server then how do you know for sure the
> > > tree looks like what you show above :-).
> > 
> > >From what I gather, he has an account that he can use to test on the CVS 
> > server.  When he tried to login using pserver, it didn't work.  No surprise 
> > there; I don't think pserver is really configured.
> > 
> > What he wants (I think) is to have users with no explicit account on the CVS 
> > server.  They will connect to the CVS server and login based on their 
> > credentials in LDAP.  I have no idea how that works.  :-)
> > 
> > It looks like he's not the only one who found this problem non-trivial.
> > http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_20927411.html
> > 
> > I'm on the verge of recommending that they stop spending engineering dollars 
> > setting it up and migrate to Perforce instead.  ;-)
> > 
> > ---Tom
> > 
> > 
> 
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