Re: need to force username of cvs 'action' when using shared SSHaccount

[Adam Hupp]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:57:11PM -0400, Tim Grotenhuis wrote:
> True.  I am not allowing anonymous access or anything, I just have a handle
> full of developers in my group...all people I know personally.  They can
> easily give me their public key and I have to manually put it into the
> authorized_keys2 file.  I suppose if their private keys were compromised I
> could have an issue.  How would you suggest controlling access to CVSROOT?

I have an idea that doesn't relate directly to the above, but may be
useful.  There's a piece of software called fakeroot
(http://packages.debian.org/fakeroot) that makes the underlying
software believe it's running as root when it is not.  That may make
cvs have the behavior you want.

-Adam