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Documentation: cleanup git-cvsserver

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Fix a few typos and alignment issues, and while at it update the
example hashes to show most of the ones available in recent crypt(3).

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón 2021-09-15 01:09:48 -07:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
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Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you
Only anonymous access is provided by pserver by default. To commit you
will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a gitcvs.authdb
setting in the config file of the repositories you want the cvsserver
to allow writes to, for example:
@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ The format of these files is username followed by the encrypted password,
for example:
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myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2
myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./
myuser:sqkNi8zPf01HI
myuser:$1$9K7FzU28$VfF6EoPYCJEYcVQwATgOP/
myuser:$5$.NqmNH1vwfzGpV8B$znZIcumu1tNLATgV2l6e1/mY8RzhUDHMOaVOeL1cxV3
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You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these
files, but only with the -d option (or -B if your system suports it).
@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ pwhash in NetBSD) and paste it in the right location.
Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
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cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword@server:/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
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No special setup is needed for SSH access, other than having Git tools
in the PATH. If you have clients that do not accept the CVS_SERVER
@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ Note: Newer CVS versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying
CVS_SERVER directly in CVSROOT like
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cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name>
cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name>
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This has the advantage that it will be saved in your 'CVS/Root' files and
you don't need to worry about always setting the correct environment
@ -184,8 +185,8 @@ allowing access over SSH.
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export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git
export CVS_SERVER="git cvsserver"
export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git
export CVS_SERVER="git cvsserver"
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4. For SSH clients that will make commits, make sure their server-side
@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ allowing access over SSH.
`project-master` directory:
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cvs co -d project-master master
cvs co -d project-master master
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