Re: Creating Per-User repositories

[Noel Yap]

My point was that students can't grant any access to
anyone not having an account on the system (I
mistakenly said "to anyone not having a login on the
system" in my previous email).  I'm assuming students
don't have authorisation to create system accounts.

Noel
--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 12:47:22 (-0800),
> Noel Yap wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Creating Per-User repositories
> >
> > I do have something to add, though.  If your
> intent is
> > to have students be able to grant access to other
> > students, SSH is sufficient and is way more secure
> > than any other method out there.  However, if you
> want
> > students to be able to grant access to
> non-students
> > (ie those that won't have login id's on the
> system),
> > SSH won't cut it.
> 
> Oh, but it will Noel -- at least so long as the
> server system supports
> full filesystem ACLs (at least on the filesystem
> used for $HOME).
> 
> With ACLs users can grant read and/or write access
> to ano other user(s)
> to explicit directories in their $CVSROOT.
> 
> It might be nice to have a pre-canned little script
> that can do all the
> right things w.r.t. how CVS obeys permissions and
> ownerships though,
> especially if the users are students.....
> 
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