Re: cvs-ssh connections problems

[Warwick Molloy]

Hi Toby,

You will probably find that there is both a userid called 'cvs' and a group 
called 'cvs'.
If the cvs repository is writable for both userid 'cvs' and members of the 
'cvs' group, the you could ask the sys-admin to make your userid a member of 
'cvs' group.  When you issue cvs commands via ssh, you would then have write 
permissions to the repository.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Warwick.


On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 12:26:56 +1100
Toby Tremayne <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm really desperate here, as I can't find any other answer...
> here's my full setup:
> 
> my cvs machine is on the internal network, with people accessing it
> normally from work through the pserver method.  All users get mapped
> through the CVSROOT/passwd file to the system user "cvs".  This is
> required as the repository is actually a samba mounted drive that
> belongs to a windows machine (not my choice), and it's mounted by an
> entry in /etc/fstab with ownership of "cvs".
> 
> All works fine through internal connection.  But external connection
> gives me "operation not permitted" when it's trying to change the mode
> of files in the repository, because the "cvs server" process is
> running NOT as the system user "cvs" but as the user name who is
> connecting.
> 
> (external connections are through ssh, and the firewall does the
> correct port forwarding - ssh works fine).
> 
> If I can find a way to force the cvs server to run as system user
> "cvs" then all will be wonderful and my problems are fixed.  I'm still
> pretty new to linux and cvs, and wondering if this is even possible?
> Is there another way to do this?
> 
> any help at all would be enormously appreciated!
> 
> cheers,
> Toby
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