[cvsnt] CVS with SSPI

[Bo Berglund]

Hi,
please do not reply in private, use the mail list or CVSNT news server
instead.

Regarding CVS (or rather CVSNT) you should realize that this is a tool that
is primarily designed for version control of software source files and that
it has since a long time a well-defined TCP interface of its own (port
2401).
So any CVS client is communicating with the server using this port and the
CVS special protocol.

It is *not* designed to be used over a webserver or via a web browser.

ViewCvs is a tool that enables *viewing* (hence the name) of a CVS
repository in a convenient format, but no normal commands are possible via
this interface. It is simply not meant for that. It is just a convenient way
to look at a repository and browse for modules and files within.

The same goes for CVSWeb, but that is rather stale nowadays when the main
development is on the ViewCvs project.

So what you should do for your team is:

1) Read the books available for CVS, there are on-line sources like
Karl Fogel's book: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
The CVSNT E-book: http://www.march-hare.com/cvsnt/features/book/

2) Install a CVSNT server on your central server PC.
Advice here: http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/InstallCVSNT25.html

3) Install the CVSNT client on the developer workstations.
You can get a client-only CVSNT installer here:
http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/cvsntinstaller.html

4) Install the WinCvs client front-end.
This is a GUI front for the command line CVSNT client.
Download here, WinCvs is at the bottom of the page, use the "bare"
installer:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10072&release_id=83299

5) Study the WinCvs documentation (fragmented...):
WinCvs new FAQ: http://www.wincvs.org/newfaq.htm#startlinks
A flash tour tutorial:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10072&package_id=1457
1&release_id=302146

Then go from there.

Best regards, 

Bo Berglund 

________________________________

From: Luciano Silva [mailto:lu.silva at gmail.com] 
Sent: den 17 februari 2006 21:02
To: bo.berglund at telia.com
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] CVS with SSPI



Hi, 

You are from Sweden! Cool! :)

I'm inexperienced in CVS, and have the responsibility to place it in
functioning in my team of development.  I'm with some doubts on as to
control the access it saw web.  
I obtained to make with that the users have access using SSPI for the
JDeveloper, but I would like to disponibilizar the interface web.

You can help me?  

This is my yahoo to messenger:  lusilva1982.  


Thank you...





On 2/17/06, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: 

	On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:24:32 -0200, Luciano Silva
<lu.silva at gmail.com>
	wrote:
	
	>>
	>> Bo,
	>>
	>> Thank you, but my configuration to Apache Server! 
	>> You know some thing on this?
	>>
	
	The installer handles both IIS and Apache as long as you are running
	CVSNT as the CVS system. The configuration is automatic.
	
	But ViewCvs as well as CvsWeb bypass the CVS server and reads the
RCS 
	files in the repository directly. This means that the system is
	protocol-less, in fact the server is not used at all (except for the
	fact that CVSNT has some RCS utilities specially done for ViewCvs so
	that it can parse the CVSNT RCS file format). 
	Note that the acls used by CVSNT in server mode also do not apply
	here.
	
	So your question about SSPI does not apply to any web browser
	interface to CVS.
	
	
	/Bo
	(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) 
	_______________________________________________
	cvsnt mailing list
	cvsnt at cvsnt.org
	http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
<http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt>