Re: Limiting user to Commit file

[Larry Jones]

Vishal Jain writes:
> 
> I have a Unix user account from which I want to be able to do all normal cvs
> operation except commit. Is there a way to say that a particular user cannot
> checkin/commit files but they can checkout the file. I am using a Unix user
> that belongs to my cvs group. So that way this Unix user can do all the
> operations on cvsRepository. How can I limit the user commit access?

Do you really want to allow any operation except commit?  Even tag and
admin -o?  If so, I'm afraid you're out of luck.  What you *can* do is
prevent *any* modification of the repository.  To do that, just set the
permissions on the repository directories such that read-only users do
not have write permission and read/write users do.  You'll also need to
set LockDir= in your CVSROOT/config file to put the lock files somewhere
other than in the repository since read-only users still need to be able
to create lock files.

-Larry Jones

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