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Re: Creating Per-User repositories
From: |
Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: Creating Per-User repositories |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:33:25 -0500 (EST) |
[ On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at 16:55:56 (-0200), Tiago Alves Macambira
wrote: ]
> Subject: Creating Per-User repositories
>
> Perhaps it is not really all that complitated to do this with pserver,
It would be MUCH easier, and far more secure overall, to just use SSH.
> as I could easily put each user repository as a directory inside the
Yes, each user's $CVSROOT could be within their $HOME with SSH too.
> [2] If it was possible, I'd rather use SSH[3] as authentication and
> access mechanism, instead of pserver, but then i loose the possibility
> of having the per-project user-editable password/control files.
You don't need user-editable password files with SSH -- they don't exist
there anyway!
> [3] If there was support for ACL[5] in linux, we could just ignore all those
> little issues and use CVS + SSH + all the stuff we need.
If you need ACLs (and you maybe do to get all the functionality you
desire), then why don't you choose a platform which supports them!?!?!?!?
> [5] OK, jfs supports ACL but isn't there a cleaner way?! Some sort of
> way that doesn't depends on having file-system conversions, backups and
> such?!
Use ACLs if you need them. They're user-controllable. Choose a
suitable platform that implements all of the functionality you need.
Don't base your platform choice on irrelevant factors!
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Greg A. Woods
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