Re: Is a multiple pserver possible?

[Anne Henmi]

Mark D. Baushke grabbed a keyboard and typed...
> > I'm looking at doing several anonymous accounts, without starting
> > a lot of cvsd's running.
> 
> cvsd is not a standard part of the cvshome.org version of cvs.
> It was written by Arthur de Jong.
> 
> The web page for cvsd is at this URL: 
>     http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/
> 
> I am sure you could ask him how things work. There are e-mail addresses
> on his web page that you may use to contact him.

I will do that.

> FYI. I have never used cvsd. (Personal opinion: I am against the use of
> :pserver: for most purposes. I do not consider it secure.)

That's why I'm looking to use cvsd, because it runs pserver in a
chrooted jail.

> > Here's what I have:
> > There are several CVS repositories:
> > 
> > /cvs/project1
> > /cvs/project2
> > /cvs/project3
> > ...
> > 
> > For each project, I need to have an anonymous user to checkout source:
> > 
> > $ cvs -d server.example.com:/cvs/project1 anonymous-user-for-project1
> > $ cvs -d server.example.com:/cvs/project1 anonymous-user-for-project2
> > $ cvs -d server.example.com:/cvs/project1 anonymous-user-for-project3
> > ...
> > 
> > (I know the syntax isn't right here, but you get my drift :)
> 
> I'm not sure I do, you used /cvs/project1 in all three commands with an
> access method that implies :ext: rather than :pserver: ... very confused.
> 
> That said, there is funadmentally no problem with this:
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/project1 co world
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/project2 co my-world
> cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/project3 co another-project
> 
> all being run on the same port 2401 using a standard 'cvs pserver' entry.
> 
> I suppose cvsd may have a harder time running out of a chrooted jail
> that can handle all three at the same time, but I don't know.

Ok, I can contact the author of cvsd about that then.

> It would equally reasonable to have a single repository in which all
> three projects resided as modules.

Ok, I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm relatively new to the CVS
thing.

> > So, is this possible? Do I need to just create several CVS users for
> > the anonymous projects? Can I get away with that without running a lot
> > of cvsd's?
> Leaving aside the merits of cvsd, I do not see any problem with having a
> single anonymous user for all of the repositories hosted on a single
> server. You should be able to setup the [x]inetd.conf or equivalent
> command to invoke 'cvs pserver' with --allow-root=/cvs/project1
> - --allow-root=/cvs/project2 --allow-root=/cvs/project3 when a connection
> to the cvspserver port (2401) by adding the same CVSROOT/passwd entry
> for the anonymous user to each repository.

I don't either, but the main user of the system wants multiple anonymous
type accounts.

Thanks for your help.

-Anne

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