[Savannah-hackers] [ 100154 ] cvs and lock issues

[nobody]

Support Request #100154, was updated on 2001-Oct-10 10:22
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Category: CVS
Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Summary: cvs and lock issues

By: loic
Date: 2001-Oct-17 12:54

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I fixed the problem and it should now work. 

Description of the fix: the anoncvs user was a member of all
possible groups in order to allow anonymous access.
Unfortunatly the number of groups grew above 512, the system
limit, hence some projects were denied anonymous cvs access.
I changed the backend scripts to use a different user, per
project. Thru the CVSROOT/passwd file, the anoncvs user is
mapped to the a_$project user that belongs to the project
group. The backend scripts create a a_$project user for
every project, for the sole purpose of anonymous cvs access.
This solves the "too many group" problem. I searched the cvs
documentation & code for an alternate way of achieving the
same result but found none.

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By: jdeneux
Date: 2001-Oct-11 14:08

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It now works for me (jdeneux). Unfortunately, anoncvs access
is still impossible.
Would it be ok for me to set LockDir ? If yes, to what
location ?

By the way, here is the command line I use:
cvs -z3
-d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/top10 co top10

I can't see anything wrong in it, but perhaps I'm just blind.

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