[cvsnt] Re: Best practice: Creating "guest" account with CVSNT

Tim Adler zero.kelvin at web.de
Thu Jan 22 21:40:28 GMT 2004


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What do you mean by "readers" file?
I tried it the way you suggested, but my CVS tool always stated "no file or
directory", when trying to access with that user!


"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bupd9k$el4$1 at sisko.local.nodomain.org...
> Tim Adler wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > In many OpenSource projects, it is common to have an CVS-guest account,
> > where people are allowed to access and checkout from the repository, but
> > cannot change anything in it.
> > I would like to have such an account on my CVSNT.
> >
> > What is best practice to do so? I only managed to create another
full-access
> > acount with NT-users.
> >
> Create a user with guest privileges, logon from network only (not
> interactively), and add their name to the 'readers' file.  If you're
> primarily using pserver for the access, then you can obuscate it a bit
> by using a name alias with no password so the external name has no
> relation to the internal login.
>
> Tony
>





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