[cvsnt] Some beginner questions about cvsnt

[Torsten Martinsen]

Rogier Eijkelhof wrote:

> Why do cvs users need to be related to system users, it seems to make 
> much more sense to me if a list of users (plus their access rights) 
> would be specified within the cvs database. The particular system it's 
> running on should be totally transparent.

Indeed it is possible to do this is you set SystemAuth=No - then CVS 
uses the list of users in the passwd file. See 
http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationTips, 4.7.
But personally I think it's more convenient to be able to use the same 
login and password for CVS as for other services.

> Same for the repository names, as I experienced so far the users 
> (clients) really have to specify the physical path on the server where 
> the repository is hosted.What good is that, wouldn't it be easier & 
> more flexible if you could just specify in cvsnt: I have repositories 
> in these directories (1) publicly available as these names (2). 

That's exactly what the RepositoryName (previously RepositoryPrefix) 
mechanism does.

> Then users would only deal with "clean names" (2), allowing the admin 
> to move the repositories to different dirs (1) on the server without 
> further implications.

Again, no problem if you use the above mechanism.

-Torsten