[cvsnt] Is it possible to completely lock down HEAD, but leave a BRANCH open for READ ONLY access?

Terry Beavers TBeavers at SkywaySoftware.com
Fri Jan 22 21:41:22 GMT 2010


Positive.

And after further testing, I believe it actually has something to the
WinCVS client (2.0.3.1) as I am able to successfully checkout code from
the BRANCH as the "guest" user when using MyEclipse as my client, even
when HEAD is locked down.

Although I ended up having to change my AclMode to compat and adjusted
ACL's accordingly to get this to work for MyEclipse, which makes sense I
guess since Eclipse only supports CVS and not CVSNT.

Anyway, it ended up being more important for us to have this work with
MyEclipse than with WinCVS, so I think this workaround will suffice for
now.

Thanks for your support,

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: Risman, Mark [mailto:Mark.Risman at mlb.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:12 PM
To: Terry Beavers
Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Is it possible to completely lock down HEAD,but
leave a BRANCH open for READ ONLY access?

Terry,

Are you sure that the "cannot open CVS/Entries for reading" message is
due to an ACL control issue, and not something with where you're trying
to check out your files?

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
Of Terry Beavers
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:09 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Is it possible to completely lock down HEAD,but
leave a BRANCH open for READ ONLY access?

First, I apologize for the confusion, mainly mine.

Second, I reset my AclMode to normal and then started fresh with new
ACL's as follows, but am still unable to checkout code from the
TEST_BRANCH as a "guest" user.

<acl branch="HEAD" user="internal">
   <all />
</acl>

<acl branch="TEST_BRANCH">
   <read />
</acl>



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