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@@ -411,8 +411,6 @@ plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of these clients.</p></div>
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 <h2 id="_limitations">LIMITATIONS</h2>

 <div class="sectionbody">

-<div class="para"><p>Currently cvsserver works over SSH connections for read/write clients, and

-over pserver for anonymous CVS access.</p></div>

 <div class="para"><p>CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform GIT merges.</p></div>

 <div class="para"><p><em>git-cvsserver</em> maps GIT branches to CVS modules. This is very different

 from what most CVS users would expect since in CVS modules usually represent

@@ -423,7 +421,7 @@ one or more directories.</p></div>
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 <p>

-If you are going to offer anonymous CVS access via pserver, add a line in

+If you are going to offer CVS access via pserver, add a line in

    /etc/inetd.conf like

 </p>

 <div class="listingblock">

@@ -440,6 +438,37 @@ looks like</p></div>
 <pre><tt>   cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver

 </tt></pre>

 </div></div>

+<div class="para"><p>Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you

+will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a gitcvs.authdb

+setting in the config file of the repositories you want the cvsserver

+to allow writes to, for example:</p></div>

+<div class="listingblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>

+   [gitcvs]

+        authdb = /etc/cvsserver/passwd

+</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="para"><p>The format of these files is username followed by the crypted password,

+for example:</p></div>

+<div class="listingblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>   myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2

+   myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="para"><p>You can use the <em>htpasswd</em> facility that comes with Apache to make these

+files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C

+library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option.</p></div>

+<div class="para"><p>Alternatively you can produce the password with perl's crypt() operator:</p></div>

+<div class="listingblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>   perl -e 'my ($user, $pass) = @ARGV; printf "%s:%s\n", $user, crypt($user, $pass)' $USER password</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="para"><p>Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:</p></div>

+<div class="listingblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>   cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword &lt;at&gt; server/path/repo.git co &lt;HEAD_name&gt;</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

 <div class="para"><p>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 <em>git-cvsserver</em> to <tt>cvs</tt>.</p></div>

@@ -806,7 +835,7 @@ Martin Langhoff &lt;martin@catalyst.net.nz&gt;
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-Last updated 2010-04-24 02:55:51 UTC

+Last updated 2010-06-13 19:56:32 UTC

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