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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:56:46 +0000 (UTC), Tony Hoyle <tmh at nothing-on.tv> wrote: >Brian Smith wrote: >> If you look at the CVSNT changelog, you will see that Tony changed "cvs >> admin" so that it can only be executed by users in the Administrators >> group. I assume that means that you must be an administrator on the >> machine local to the cvs server. > >If SystemAuth=Yes, then yes, otherwise only the admin file is consulted. > >> BTW, I think it would be better to have CVSNT regognize the "CVS_ADMIN" >> group (or whatever it is called in unix cvs) for this authorization >> instead of the "Administrators" group. (a) for symmetry with the unix >> version, and (b) because the CVS admin might not be a member of >> "Administrators" but still have a enough privileges to effectively >> administer CVS. > >It's a pain in the neck to set up and you just get lots of people >complaining that cvs is broken because it doesn't say they are an >administrator when they are... (been there, done that). > >If you put users in the admin file they can be cvs admins without being >domain admins, which achieves what most people seem to want. But you need to switch off SystemAuth then? /Bo /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs