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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-10-04 12:53:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-10-04 12:53:05 -0700 |
| commit | 6a7e26352ec87c982c77187895cfcc309d16386e (patch) | |
| tree | 124884361fbe933741e5358263ec807170c7027e /git-cvsserver.txt | |
| parent | 04ae28bcd0654cd937a78473ed1541f20c0bd8b7 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-6a7e26352ec87c982c77187895cfcc309d16386e.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.33.0-664-g0785eb
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diff --git a/git-cvsserver.txt b/git-cvsserver.txt index f2e4a47eb..4dc57ed25 100644 --- a/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ looks like ------ -Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you +Only anonymous access is provided by pserver 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: @@ -114,21 +114,20 @@ The format of these files is username followed by the encrypted password, for example: ------ - myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2 - myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./ + myuser:sqkNi8zPf01HI + myuser:$1$9K7FzU28$VfF6EoPYCJEYcVQwATgOP/ + myuser:$5$.NqmNH1vwfzGpV8B$znZIcumu1tNLATgV2l6e1/mY8RzhUDHMOaVOeL1cxV3 ------ You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these -files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C -library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option. +files, but only with the -d option (or -B if your system suports it). -Alternatively you can produce the password with perl's crypt() operator: ------ - perl -e 'my ($user, $pass) = @ARGV; printf "%s:%s\n", $user, crypt($user, $pass)' $USER password ------ +Preferably use the system specific utility that manages password hash +creation in your platform (e.g. mkpasswd in Linux, encrypt in OpenBSD or +pwhash in NetBSD) and paste it in the right location. Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example: ------ - cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name> + cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword@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 @@ -138,7 +137,7 @@ Note: Newer CVS versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying CVS_SERVER directly in CVSROOT like ------ -cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name> + cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name> ------ This has the advantage that it will be saved in your 'CVS/Root' files and you don't need to worry about always setting the correct environment @@ -186,8 +185,8 @@ allowing access over SSH. + -- ------ - export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git - export CVS_SERVER="git cvsserver" + export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git + export CVS_SERVER="git cvsserver" ------ -- 4. For SSH clients that will make commits, make sure their server-side @@ -203,7 +202,7 @@ allowing access over SSH. `project-master` directory: + ------ - cvs co -d project-master master + cvs co -d project-master master ------ [[dbbackend]] |