Re: anoncvs.shar without mirror

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Nikolay Sturm <sturm@openbsd.org> wrote:

> > a secure (ssh tunneled) chroot-jailed cvs server with multiple
> > repositories and independant userlists (developers).  all developers
> > must not have an account on the system but within the chroot jail.
> 
> CVS does not have its own user management, therefore you need system
> users.

Actually, CVS does have its own user management (see CVSROOT/passwd,
readers, writers), but this is only applicable when cvs actually
controls access, i.e. in pserver mode.  When you go through SSH,
it is obviously sshd that controls access, and sshd references
system users, not cvs ones.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de