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Rogier Eijkelhof wrote: > Why do cvs users need to be related to system users, it seems to make > much more sense to me if a list of users (plus their access rights) > would be specified within the cvs database. The particular system it's > running on should be totally transparent. Indeed it is possible to do this is you set SystemAuth=No - then CVS uses the list of users in the passwd file. See http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationTips, 4.7. But personally I think it's more convenient to be able to use the same login and password for CVS as for other services. > Same for the repository names, as I experienced so far the users > (clients) really have to specify the physical path on the server where > the repository is hosted.What good is that, wouldn't it be easier & > more flexible if you could just specify in cvsnt: I have repositories > in these directories (1) publicly available as these names (2). That's exactly what the RepositoryName (previously RepositoryPrefix) mechanism does. > Then users would only deal with "clean names" (2), allowing the admin > to move the repositories to different dirs (1) on the server without > further implications. Again, no problem if you use the above mechanism. -Torsten