Re: Can the admin command be disabled?

[Donald Sharp]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:17:40AM -0700, Mark wrote:
> 
> I am aware of the admin group and how it works. That wasn't what I was asking.
> 
> Forget the admin command (should have seen that response comming) How can the
> import command be disabled in pserver, so cvs does not recognize it as a valid
> command?

Now I'm confused.  Where in the first email do you discuss
the import command?

In any event.  All I would do is comment the import command out
on the cvs pserver as well.  Or comment it out on all the
cvs clients that you will be using.

donald
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- Donald Sharp <sharpd@cisco.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 07:16:44AM -0700, Mark wrote:
> > > With the CVS source for 1.11.1p1, how does one disable the admin command?
> > In
> > > main.c I commented out two lines. Now cvs binary does not recognize the
> > admin
> > > as a valid command (and cvs help does not list it as a command) in local
> > mode.
> > > Great.
> > 
> > Create a group cvsadmin, only members of this group can run 
> > cvs admin commands.
> > 
> > http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC119
> > 
> > donald
> > > 
> > > However this does not seem to affect the pserver. Looking at the code in
> > > server.c, I comment out the REQ_LINE for "admin", hoping it won't be found
> > and
> > > then when rq->name==NULL an "unrecognized request" error would be sent.
> > > However, commenting out that REQ_LINE just causes the server to hang on
> > trying
> > > to use the admin command. Is admin request needed for normal operations?
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on how to disable the admin command? I didn't think it would be
> > to
> > > difficult to do.
> > > 
> > > =====
> > > \=======================\
> > > \==\  Mark O'Brien
> > > \==\  CM Consultant
> > > \==\  cm_mark@yahoo.com
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