Re: Is a multiple pserver possible?

[Anne Henmi]

Mark D. Baushke grabbed a keyboard and typed...
> You may find it more reasonable to use a chrooted jail for cvsroot
> using SSH as the transport. The URL:
> 
>     http://www.pointless.nl/~peter/stuff/cvs-server.html
> 
> give you a step-by-step for NetBSD, but similar mechanisms will work for
> other servers too.

Cool, I'll check it out. NetBSD, ahh.. that brings back some memories.
I haven't used NetBSD in years. :(

> I was suggesting a single cvs repository 
> 
>   /cvs/repository
> 
> with multiple projects
> 
>   /cvs/repository/project1
>   /cvs/repository/project2
>   /cvs/repository/project3
> 
> such that
> 
>   cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvs/repository checkout project1
>   cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvs/repository checkout project2
>   cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvs/repository checkout project3
> 
> would work.
> 
> > > > 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.
> Why?

Because he doesn't want the various anonymous users to have access to
various projects.

I don't understand it either, but I'm trying to get it setup his way.

Can this work?

-Anne
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