[TriLUG] cvs CVSROOT/modules

[William Sutton]

I was referring to the cold fusion electricity source (or alleged 
source)...I won't even comment on our coding standards.

IANAA either, indeed IAAP (I am a programmer), so what ldap can/cannot do 
is beyond my realm of knowledge.  What I know is the problem set I've been 
given and the results of my research while trying to solve that problem.

William

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Mike M wrote:

> 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?
>