[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

[Mike M]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:28:31PM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> Well, we have more than 20-30 users :) (I work for a VERY large company) 

Heh.  Betcha they have a coding standards committee and an ISO 900x
compliance committee too :-).  Or maybe they are Extreme Programmers
:-).

> 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).

Gee. I don't know. 20-30 developers with a 10% turn-over annually
doesn't seem like a high price to pay for all the admin friendly stuff
that CVS offers.

IANAA (I am not an admin :) but isn't LDAP the tool for centrally
managing authorization for many users with many accounts on many machines?  
I wasn't aware that LDAP somehow eliminated the need for making
many accounts on many machines for many users.
> 
> >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).

Maybe a dead meme?  I had a similar experience in the past few days.
I was setting up cdrecord and when I burned a CD I got repeated errors
about "fixating".  There were lots of googles for the error string but
no solutions.  I eventually figured out that problems with fixating
is cdrecord's way of telling you to invest more money in CD ROM blank
media.  (I wish I still had the precise error message so I could
plant it in this email so Google could find it.) Asking how to fix
the "fixating" problem generated lots of discussion that yielded no
results.
> 
> 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.

There you go.  Doubt setting in :-).  BTW, isn't cold fusion some sort
of dot com era tool that would let you make $120K/year if you knew how to
use it?
-- 
Mike

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