From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ilya Furmanov Subject: git-cvsserver pserver username propagation Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 16 20:00:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzvxL-0007Nh-Dc for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:00:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753775Ab1CPTAK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:00:10 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50022 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753239Ab1CPTAH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:00:07 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzvx0-0007g9-Fr for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:00:06 +0100 Received: from alaintech.corbina.net ([alaintech.corbina.net]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:00:06 +0100 Received: from furious-i by alaintech.corbina.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:00:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 89.179.144.142 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.134 Safari/534.16) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello All! For some specific workflow issues at my company, I need to allow some users work with CVS, while main repository is under git. I've chosen git-cvsserver as implementation for this task. I set up git repository, enabled it for gitcvs and setup a pserver simulation on xinetd. Everything works fine, I can work with this repository from cvs client, authenticating against passwd file I created through pserver emulation. My problem is that commits that I make through CVS are shown under user who runs xinetd, not under user I authenticate against passwd. i.e. I commit to CVS as user 'foo', I successfully authenticate through pserver, but when I look at git history of commits for this repo, i see that commit has been made by user 'root'. I looked through source of git-cvsserver (http://git.kernel.org/? p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git-cvsserver.perl) and it seems that CVS login is used only for authentication, not for actual committing. Records in SQLite database contain 'root' username too, not 'foo' Do you have any ideas how I can propagate CVS login to git username?