[cvsnt] Re: how to allow administration priveledges?

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Sun Mar 13 21:24:31 GMT 2005


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Chuck Kirschman wrote:
> Come on somebody - there has to be a way to give people cvs admin 
> priveleges without giving them root access to the server or having to 
> maintain an admin file per repository?  The former is too dangerous, and 
> the latter is a maintenance nightmare.  I really want this to be handled 
> in Active Directory rather than creating a bunch of files.  Is there 
> some way to specify an alternative group such as "cvsadmins" to do the 
> same thing?

CVS is written around having few repositories, rather than many.  While 
it is possible to have many repositories it's not the norm except for 
some circumstances.  Why is it that you are using many repositories?


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Glen Starrett



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