Re: CVS

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Jason Gunthorpe writes ("Re: CVS"):
...
> However, it is good to have the choice to be able to use encryption. [see
> below]

Right.  I think that for a critical package like dpkg maintained by a
very small group it's probably essential.

...
> No, I have patched CVS on va to work around this. CVS runs as the owner of
> the repository and ONLY that person, the entries in the passwd file are
> ignored. It switches to the owner of the root CVS directory it is using
> and that cannot be changed without root privlages.

That's good.

...
> There is no reason why debian developers can't use ssh directly, but I
> have not been setting all the repositories up as groups because it makes
> debian-admin's job a bit harder to keep track of the extra groups and
> people. However, Gnome is setup as a group, there is no reason not to.
> 
> I will set dpkg up like this and put klee, iwj and mdorman in the group,
> if you want other people to use it then email debian-admin@debian.org. 
> Also, if you are using ssh then there is no need to have an entry in the
> CVSROOT/passwd file.

That would be great.  Thank you.

Ian.


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