RE: Using password file for pserver user authentication

[George J. Schlitz]

Thanks Larry and Jeff,

I learned some from both of your responses, and will definitely be using
aspects of both responses.
For this particular problem, the following seems to give me exactly what I
need:
I have only one unix account: cvsuser...
In CVSROOT/passwd:
user1::cvsuser
user2::cvsuser
user3::cvsuser

In taginfo:
ALL $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/<script> $USER

In <script>, the following command line arguments are now available:
$1 The user who logged in via pserver- not necessarily the system user
$2 tag name
$3 operation (add, mov, del)
$4 repository
$5 file revision [file revision ...]

So if user1 logs in and tries to tag something, <script> is kicked off, and
$1=user1, while $USER=cvsuser

This is exactly what I need.

Thanks again
George

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:48 PM

        <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC170>

Recent versions of CVS also set the $CVS_USER environment variable.  For
further details, see:

        <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC176>

-Larry Jones

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