[Cvsnt] aliasing as Admin

Arvind Raman arvind_raman_tech at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 18 10:58:52 GMT 2002


Hi
I went thru the list of files under the CVSROOT
directory but couldn't find a file named admin.
I even enabled the "show hidden files option" but
still couldn't find the admin file.
I am not sure what needs to be done to get
administartive priviliges on the database.

Thanks and regards
Arvind



--- Bo Berglund <Bo.Berglund at system3r.se> wrote:
> I am not really sure about that, but I have seen
> mention of a special
> file CVSROOT/admin which contains a list of users
> who are granted the
> permission to operate as repository admins and thus
> add/modify the
> passwd file.
> If this is so I guess that by adding the intended
> users to such a file
> should do the trick.
>
> This comes from a recent post by Tony Hoyle, talking
> about the admin file:
>
> "Looking at the current code it seems to require a
> linefeed at the end of
> the last name (otherwise it misses it).  That's a
> bug that'll probably
> end up as a FAQ if I don't fix it :-)"
>
> /Bo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arvind Raman
> [mailto:arvind_raman_tech at yahoo.com]
> Sent: den 18 mars 2002 08:11
> To: Cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: [Cvsnt] aliasing as Admin
>
>
> How do we create an administrative login for a CVS
> database.
> Is there a way on setting that "an user and only
> this
> user" could have administrative rights on the
> database. For instance he is the only person who can
> add and delete users and change passwords for the
> users.
> Early today in Bo Berglund email I read that one
> could
> alias as an admin. Could anybody elaborate on that.
>
> Thanks
> Arvind
>
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