[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

[William Sutton]

Well, we have more than 20-30 users :) (I work for a VERY large company) 
so just creating new user accounts on the cvs server is impractical (not 
to mention that each user having to keep up with yet another account is 
impractical).

>From my google searches in the last hour, it looks like there have been a 
handful of people looking for a solution to this since at least January of 
2001.  About 1/2 of the links I found were on lists.gnu.org, and one 
suggested using pserver and generating the passwd file from the ldap 
directory (ick).  Another mentioned that the author was thinking about 
hacking the cvs ldap sources (not my ball of wax).  A third suggested that 
he had a solution (but never actually divulged HOW they did it).

I'm beginning to think that actually doing this is in the realm of cold 
fusion--alleged but never proven.  This is the sort of beast that needs in 
depth documentation with examples.

William (starting to feel slightly depressed)

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Mike M wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:37:25PM -0400, Tom Bryan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 01:12 pm, Mike M wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> yeah.....I dunno.  pam ldap - isn't that what's used to authenticate
> users when they....log in to an account?
> 
> Adding a user account on a machine is pretty easy. CVS works pretty well using
> the ext method with ssh.  Sourceforge creates an account for each
> developer.  You have to ssh to the account once to establish the key.
> Seems to me that if CVS works at sourceforge then it ought to 
> be manageable at the enterprise level.
> > 
> > I'm on the verge of recommending that they stop spending engineering dollars 
> > setting it up and migrate to Perforce instead.  ;-)
> 
> How much do it cost?  Pretty hard to beat  the cost of CVS and SSH.  And
> it's pretty hard to beat the security of SSH.  The support network for
> CVS is vast and free too.
>