Re: problem in configuring cvs_acls on Centos 4.0(second time post)

[ankush grover]

On 9/23/06, Mark D. Baushke <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi Ankush,
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> A quick change to your version of the cvs_acls.pl script would probably be
> to change this line:
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> $myname = $ENV{"USER"} if !($myname = $ENV{"LOGNAME"});
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> To this
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> $myname = $ENV{"CVS_USER"} || $ENV{"USER"} || $ENV{"LOGNAME"} || getpwuid($<) || 
> "uid#$<";
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> This will try to find a defined environment variable first, then try to
> lookup the current uid in the passwd file and then just create a user
> based on uid#nnnn where nnn is the uid as defined by $< ...
>
> Failing that, you should probably consider picking up the latest version
> of cvs_acls.pl as the version you have is not as flexible as the newer
> revisions of this script.
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> Documentation and script are here:
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> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.html?rev=HEAD&root=cvs
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.pl?rev=HEAD&root=cvs
>
> You should carefully read the documentation.
>
> The key thing you need to understand about the new version of the script
> is that the -u switch should be passed the CVS_USER rather than $USER,
> so your commitinfo script will end up having something like this line:
>
> DEFAULT /usr/local/bin/cvs_acls -u $CVS_USER
hey Mark,

Thanks for the guidance, I will definitely look into this . You have
always been very helpful.

Thanks & Regards

Ankush Grover