Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

[Mark]

Rhodes, Phillip C. wrote:
> I am nervous that all my cvs archives are owned by a group that
all of our developers are a member of.
> That is, any developer with a unix account (all of them) can
nuke the archives.
> 
> Besides backups....  any thoughts on this?  Sorry, I am new to
cvs...
> 
> We will be using both the unix-command line for cvs client
access and the pserver with virtual unix users.
> 
> Thanks for any help in getting over the hump.  

have unix command line users use :pserver:

have the pserver run as a non-root account from inetd, then 
allow no write access to any id/group other than the id running 
the pserver.

Mark


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