Re: CVS Repository Protection

[Derek R. Price]

Sarang Padalkar wrote:

> Is it possible to set CVS up so that the CVS repository is not
> world-writeable? ie. some king of setuid script that performs
> cvs operations with a different userid?

It's possible, but I don't think a setuid script would preserve the
correct user names in the log messages.  I'd probably switch to pserver,
rsh, or ssh (if you're sensitive about security) as an access method and
make sure the repository wasn't on a shared drive (at least with the
same path).  Read up on remote repositories in the Cederqvist:

    http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/index.html

Derek

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