[cvsnt] Re: Does ViewCVS respect CVSNT ACLs ?

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Sun Dec 18 15:23:54 GMT 2005


Jan Giesen wrote:
> Is it possible to set-up ViewCVS in such a way, that access control rights
> specified with "cvsnt chacl" are respected?
> As I understand, ViewCVS access directly the repository files via RCS
> commands.
> I suspect that this access method bypass the CVSNT ACLs specified in the
> CVS/fileattr.xml
> files. Is this different if the "RCS wrappers" offered by CVSNT are used?
> 
That's why there's no viewcvs on the cvsnt repository any more...  It's 
probably fixable, but you'd need to modify viewcvs eg. have some form of 
login and be able to pass the username to cvsnt for the acl check.

Tony



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