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cvs assign alias to user

i want to assign a user a role in my cvs

i created the user using :

cvs passwd -a john

cvs passwd -a -r administrator john

this gives admin privileges to user john; what other privileges can i give ?

Thanks for all ur help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vijayprasad

Hi,

In cvsnt, the option r for passwd command means,

-r user
Alias username to real system user. Before a virtual (pserver) user can log in, the system needs to know which user account to use for that user.

This option aliases a CVS Username to System user. A cvs user is different from a system user. There is no necessary for a CVS user to be a system user.

> cvs passwd -a -r administrator john
Here this command says to alias john(CVS User) as the administrator(System User) for the log in.

I suppose you are using cvsnt in Windows box. If so, there should be one system user named administrator in your case.

As far as I know, there is no support for assigning roles to a CVS User.

Regards,
Vijay S.

vijayprasad

Hi,

Can you please explain the scenario / usage of setting such roles to the CVS User?

Regards,
Vijay S.

royalcyber

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yes I am using CVS on windows 2003 server;

if i create 2 cvs users

1) john

2) mike

and I alias john to administrator user account ( belong to admin group)

and alias mike to a user account ( belonging to user group)

than what more features will john have than mike

why do we need to do this alias on windows ? whats the benefit

Thanks for all your help!!!!!!!!!!!!

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vijayprasad

Thanks RoyalCyber.

Cheers,
Vijay S.