R: [Cvsnt] aliasing as Admin

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:56:46 +0000 (UTC), Tony Hoyle
<tmh at nothing-on.tv> wrote:

>Brian Smith wrote:
>> If you look at the CVSNT changelog, you will see that Tony changed "cvs
>> admin" so that it can only be executed by users in the Administrators
>> group. I assume that means that you must be an administrator on the
>> machine local to the cvs server.
>
>If SystemAuth=Yes, then yes, otherwise only the admin file is consulted.
>
>> BTW, I think it would be better to have CVSNT regognize the "CVS_ADMIN"
>> group (or whatever it is called in unix cvs) for this authorization
>> instead of the "Administrators" group. (a) for symmetry with the unix
>> version, and (b) because the CVS admin might not be a member of
>> "Administrators" but still have a enough privileges to effectively
>> administer CVS.
>
>It's a pain in the neck to set up and you just get lots of people
>complaining that cvs is broken because it doesn't say they are an
>administrator when they are... (been there, done that).
>
>If you put users in the admin file they can be cvs admins without being
>domain admins, which achieves what most people seem to want.

But you need to switch off SystemAuth then?
/Bo



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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