[Xorg] New committer process?

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Mon Jun 14 20:16:27 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:42:25PM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:03:27 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Is there some setgid/setuid (yuck) mechanism I'm unaware of?  Or should I 
> > be using some other repository access mechanism?
> 
> One thing I do on a CVS server I run is to put the following into the
> users' .ssh/authorized_keys file, just before their key public key.
> 
> no-pty,no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,command="/usr/bin/cvs --allow-root=/cvs server" 
> 
> This lets the users have CVS access with no shell account. It seems to
> work fairly well, but would then require the CVS repository to be
> separate from the machine where users do need shell access.

Right; fd.o is too much of a general-purpose machine to make that
happen.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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