Re: can't track users that check-in remotely via ssh

[Todd Denniston]

Mark wrote:
> I like to use a remote machine to do cvs check-ins because I
> have management control on it and so I have installed better
> tools (compilers, editors, etc). But when I check in to
> our cvs server, because I'm going through ssh remotely
> this is typical of what goes in the commitlog:
>
> project/demo/src frontside.cc
> Mon Jul 23 10:36:40 EDT 2007
> Update of /repo/projectcvs/main/project/demo/src
> In directory cvshost.domain.org:/tmp/cvs-serv6345/src
>
> Basically the negative side of doing remote cvs checkins
> is that commitlog file tracking who did what checkin is getting
> sanitized by that ambiguous "cvs-serv####" string
>
> When I check-in locally I can tell it was me because
> my sandbox is under my home directory so my home
> directory name is embedded in the "In directory" path.
>
> Is there some way to get remote entries in the log to embedded the
> ssh username?  Maybe it could look like:
>
> project/demo/src frontside.cc
> Mon Jul 23 10:36:40 EDT 2007
> Update of /repo/projectcvs/main/project/demo/src
> In directory cvshost.domain.edu:address@hidden:/tmp/cvs-serv1113/...
>
> or instead of that number #### can cvs use append the username
> to that:   /tmp/cvs-serv1113_user ??
>
> This is on cvs 1.9 as the cvs server and cvs 1.11.22 as the
> remote client.
>
> Mark

I am also using ssh.

1) have you considered updating to something a little more secure on the 
server? I mean there have been a huge number of security fixes since 1.9 came out.

2) the modern commit_prep and log_accum (mine came from cvs-1.11.19) puts the 
username at the beginning of the message. [for use with commitinfo]

3) why do you really care who committed what in the commit log files, when you 
can query the repository directly if you really need to know?

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter