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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2010-05-15 15:06:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-05-19 21:02:58 -0700 |
| commit | 031a027a72a62ccf45ae22dee5721e554f6ba6e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a2cf0a81b42c2800b23f4633b58beefd29ce431 /Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | |
| parent | 636e87d705c2d6cc53d58eac31b689779d00b292 (diff) | |
| download | git-031a027a72a62ccf45ae22dee5721e554f6ba6e9.tar.gz | |
git-cvsserver: authentication support for pserver
Allow git-cvsserver to use authentication over pserver mode. The
pserver user/password database is stored in the config file for each
repository.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Worriedly-Acked-by: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index dbb053ee17..031480b154 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of these clients. LIMITATIONS ----------- -Currently cvsserver works over SSH connections for read/write clients, and -over pserver for anonymous CVS access. - CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform GIT merges. 'git-cvsserver' maps GIT branches to CVS modules. This is very different @@ -84,7 +81,7 @@ one or more directories. INSTALLATION ------------ -1. If you are going to offer anonymous CVS access via pserver, add a line in +1. If you are going to offer CVS access via pserver, add a line in /etc/inetd.conf like + -- @@ -101,6 +98,22 @@ looks like cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver ------ + +Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you +will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a [gitcvs.users] +section to the repositories you want to access, for example: + +------ + + [gitcvs.users] + someuser = somepassword + otheruser = otherpassword + +------ +Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example: +------ + cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name> +------ No special setup is needed for SSH access, other than having GIT tools in the PATH. If you have clients that do not accept the CVS_SERVER environment variable, you can rename 'git-cvsserver' to `cvs`. |