Re: Q - cvs

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:05:40PM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Mohammed, a quickie - 
> 
> on arabeyes we are only using the ':pserver:' right ?  Not :ext: or any
> other thing, right ?  So this is the only thing that will work --
> 
>    setenv CVSROOT :pserver:nadim at arabeyes dot org:/home/CVS
> 
> I have no idea on the difference, nor do I really care, but I wanted to know
> to update my local files so that I know what to use next time -- the point
> is - is :pserver: the most secure way of me downloading/uploading data
> to arabeyes ?  (I am using 'setenv CVS_RSH ssh')


CVS Access Types -
  - pserver (stand-alone server or thru inetd)
  - external (remote-shell or secure remote-shell)

The current pserver setup on Arabeyes is that it runs through inetd. The
pserver is NOT a secure server. However, the pserver here does not point to
the LOCALCVS repository -- it only points to the public CVS. 

In order to get 'external' access the server would need to run either a telnet
or ssh server. In our case, it is an ssh server. That is why you set the
CVS_RSH environment to ssh. So, the only requirement for you to access _any_
repository on a machine that has one is that you have read/write access to it.
That is, to the files in the repository. 

HOWEVER, that is not true with using the pserver. You need to have a separate
username/password entry in a password file inside the CVSROOT directory. You,
Chahine and I don't have pserver accounts. Only Isam does (out of the core
team), everyone else has pserver accounts only. That is so no one outside
Arabeyes can mess with LOCALCVS.

If you are ON arabeyes.org then you just leave that blank and move on to
setting the environment as simply /home/CVS
     setenv CVSROOT /home/CVS

The same goes for LOCALCVS.

cheers

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