CVSPermissions

Vivek Venugopalan

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Table of Contents

Introduction to CVSPermissions
Why CVSPermissions
Pre-requisites
Getting the toolkit
Installing CVSPermissions
Configuring CVSPermissions
One time configuration
Setting up User privileges
Setting up access rights for Restricted Users
How does CVSPermissions work
Background
Key Configuration Files
Mechanism
Conclusion

Abstract

This is the detailed documentation for the CVSPermissions toolkit. This will contain all relevant and necessary information for deploying and using the CVSPermissions toolkit.

Introduction to CVSPermissions

CVSPermissions is a toolkit that will allow CVS administrators to setup directory level access permissions in CVS. This toolkit is a collection of shell scripts and few CVS configuration information to achieve the said functionality.

CVS, for the uninitiated, is a source code version control tool that is very popular in the open source world. The tool is extremely stable and robust with good scalability for large products. More information about CVS can be found at the following sites.

Google
Webwww.sanchivi.com
CVSPermissions