Re: How to allow access to new repositories without root permission?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 09:52:45 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How to allow access to new repositories without root permission?
>
> Zsolt writes:
> > 
> > I understand that I can configure via the inetd (xinetd) daemon which
> > repositories can be access via the "pserver" protocol but to execute
> > "kill -HUP INET_PROC_ID I need root permission. Is there an other way to
> > make a new repository accessible for remote clients?
> 
> No.

Well, yes, actually there is.  :-)

It workd by way of SSH.

Amazingly use of SSH doesn't require any adjustments to inetd, xinetd,
or indeed any root permissions for any purpose whatsoever.

Quite simply every user with an account on the server can access the
repository remotely via SSH, either directly by logging in on the server
and running CVS there (i.e. storing their working directories on the
server), or indirectly by using SSH and a client CVS program to invoke
the CVS server (i.e. storing their working directories on their client
machine).

Any users who need to access the repository but who don't already have
an account on the server will of course have to ask the server admin to
create an account for them.  :-)

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