[cvsnt] 2.0.51: commitinfo username

[James Kavanagh]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bo Berglund [mailto:bo.berglund at telia.com] 
> Sent: 04 October 2004 23:51
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] 2.0.51: commitinfo username
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:01:54 +0100, "James Kavanagh" 
> <james.kavanagh at voxsurf.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm attempting to write a small Java application which performs a 
> >similar function to the cvs_acls.pl script which has been widely 
> >distributed. Essentially I want to prevent some users from 
> committing 
> >files to a release branch. I've got past the hurdles of 
> retrieving the 
> >filenames etc. but I cannot seem to obtain the user from anywhere. 
> >Calls to System.getProperty("user.name") come back with 
> "SYSTEM" which 
> >is the user that the CVSNT service is running under.
> >
> >1. Can anyone help on this front? Has anyone done this 
> before or am I 
> >wasting my time :( or..
> 
> If you add a $USER parameter to the call line in the 
> commitinfo script then your script execution will get the 
> commit user as the specified command line parameter and you 
> can easily parse it out from there. The $USER is NOT an 
> environment variable, it is detected by CVSNT and gets 
> replaced by the proper value when your script is called by CVS.
> 
> HTH
> 

Thanks for this Bo. I actually discovered this yesterday while searching
for an answer.

> 
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) 
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