[cvsnt] (no subject) admin user

Matt Schuckmann matthew_schuckmann at amat.com
Thu Apr 21 17:26:42 BST 2005


Thanks for the suggestion but I just tried that and it there is no change.

Matt S.

"Richard Wirth" <r.wirth at wirthware.de> wrote in message
news:mailman.23.1114099550.20198.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:17:02 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> RK> Thank you but ....
>
> RK> I've just tried that and I still don't get the administrator's ability
> RK> to change log messages.
> RK> Do I need to restart the server ?
>
> no, you don't have to restart the server anyway, the server
> (cvsnt.exe) is started when ever you ask your client to execute any
> command.
>
> RK> Can the new 'admin' file have comments in it ?  (Tried with and
without,
> RK> neither let me use the command).
>
> No, AFAIKT there must be only plain user names, one per line.
> But may be this functionality only works for unix installations?
> No, I checked the sources. Even on windows before checking any group
> membership the CVSROOT/admin file is checked for the user names, but
> there might be an issue!
> The code checks for '\n' as name delimiter and if you created the file
> on WIN32 it has CR/LF delimiters. So it may be usefull to translate
> the file to unix line endings to get around this 'feature' :-)
> (This is not a bug, because all files handled by the server are handled
> in unix-mode to keep the repository binary compatible to unix
> installations.)
>
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Richard                            mailto:r.wirth at wirthware.de
>





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