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RE: Local CVS Authentication


From: Arthur Barrett
Subject: RE: Local CVS Authentication
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:38:07 +1100

Hi Sam,

FIPS 201 PIV - Personal Identity Verification for the Federal
Government?  Ie: an RSA key stored on a smart card accessed by a vendor
specific API and a PIN entered by the user?

I work for the vendor of CVSNT as the product manager.  I recommend you
contact Glen Starrett in Memphis TN on 800-653-1501 x803. He's the
technical account manager for your area and can help with a quote and
assistance with your upgrade.

Version control systems are not interchangable - they support your SCCM
business process.  For commercial/professional programmers that process
usually includes the need to relate one change to another based on a
job/defect/test-case etc - this is a changeset and is supported by CVSNT
but not CVS or SVN.
http://march-hare.com/cvsnt/features/changesets/

There are many many other features supported by the latest CVSNT that
are not supported by SVN (failsafe audit, auto merge with mergepoints,
distributed repositories etc), but what's important is that the tool has
the features to support your business process: PIV included.  If you are
using CVSNT today then clearly it does support your business process.

Exactly how you configure CVSNT to work with your smartcard technology
will depend on your client operating system, CVS Server version and
operating system and the client/server protocol in use (pserver, ssh,
sspi etc). 

I think TortoiseCVS is irrelevant to this disucssion, it's a graphical
front end to CVSNT - the
checkin/checkout/authentication/changesets/audit/reserving etc is done
by CVSNT, not by the GUI.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett
Product Manager


> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden
> org] On Behalf Of Harris, Sam
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011 8:40 AM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Local CVS Authentication
> 
> 
> We have used Active Directory for CVS authentication for many 
> years. But a new directive has been handed down that requires 
> all applications to be PIV enabled. In about six weeks Active 
> Directory will be disabled. We have been given two choices. 
> (1) Re-Configure CVS to authenticate all users, and (2) 
> migrate all CVS projects to SVN.
> We have 50 projects and 60 users and use CVSNT 
> 2.0.58d/TortoiseCVS 1.8.11.
> 
> My questions
> Can CVS be PIV enable?
> Which of my two choices will be the quickest and best?
> 
> Sam
> 
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> as the other person sees him, and each person as he really 
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