Re: cvs patch

[Derek R. Price]

Tom Lear wrote:

> I've written a patch to cvs to allow access to be restricted to
> read-only and to specific roots. The patch adds -d and -r options to
> "cvs server" this can be very nice with command= restrictions in a
> .ssh/authorized_keys file, but is of (very) limited use without ssh.
> This could be put in a users .cvsrc but that would be silly unless the
> user has no shell access (eg thier shell is a script that runs "cvs
> server"), that's the only non-ssh use I can think of for this patch but
> since it doesn't interfere with anything else I think it would be worth
> having.

I can see the -d option being useful only because support should be simple to
add, but the option should be --allow-root to match pserver.  I'm not
sure I see the advantages of the -r option, except perhaps as an extension to
the BSD -R patch, as read/write access may be restricted via system
file permissions anyhow.

Derek

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