Re: ssh and root
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:49PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Benoît Sibaud <benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com> writes:
>
> >> BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy
> >> (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this
> >> confuse cvs on the other server? Would I have direct write access to
> >> 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs? Hints welcome.
>
> > (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF CVS. You can
> > import your files in, but you don't have a full control on your files:
> > you can't remove directories from your CVS tree, and you can't change
> > file permissions on your files (be careful if you commit script or
> > executable). For both, you'll have to submit a request to SF team. And
> > you don't have ssh access to SF CVS servers AFAIK (only to users
> > server).
>
> >From what one hears about current changs in SF politics it is
> questionable if nowadays one should not prefer savannah anyway.
>
> See for example:
> http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html
>
> Let me cite one line from there:
> 'Features for exporting a project from SourceForge have been removed.'
> I don't like this!
>
Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply.. I'm the Sr. Systems
Administrator for SourceForge.net. We still allow users to download their
nightly CVS tarball and they can easily download their web directories.. hell
they can mirror their file releases via rsync also.. the thing they are
talking about is the ability to export 'tracker' (aka bug tracking, etc..)
information off the website..
We used to have a data export tools for this, but we made a major backend
changes (mysql -> postgresql) and some of the data types changed. We
honestly forgot they were there. We had exactly 3 requests in the 6-8
months since we made this change of people asking for this feature back.
It just wasn't a priority.
The code is OpenSource.. submit a patch.. I'm sure we'll take it..
--
- U
"Any setuid root program that does an exec() somewhere is just a less
user friendly version of su." -- Olaf Kirch on bugtraq 2000-08-07
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