Re: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSH account

[Pierre Asselin]

TG <address@hidden> wrote:

> Here is the issue:  I noticed that the name of the committer for each
> file that I committed was unix account id, or the one that is used to
> SSH into the cvs machine.  Now I have multiple developers(committers)
> and ONLY ONE shared shell account on the machine where is CVS is
> running.

Is there a reason why you can't use the old-fashioned strategem
of one account per developer ?


> I need to be able to force a unique name for each developer
> that CVS will log.

> Here is what I've tried so far:

> A. In front of each developers public key, I placed:

>   command="/home/mydomain/bin/setuserscript
> theuser",no-port-forwarding,no-pty

You can also use $HOME/.ssh/environment on the client side to tunnel
environment variables of your choice.  I've never tried it myself, I
just saw that in the ssh man page.  (Your developers would be able to
cheat, though.)  The trouble is, CVS doesn't look at the environment to
decide who's calling.


> There HAS to be a way to force cvs to record the correct committer
> name.

Why ?  Why would cvs extract that information from a source other than
its own euid ?