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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index 031480b154..f414245b43 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -100,16 +100,27 @@ looks like ------ Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you -will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a [gitcvs.users] -section to the repositories you want to access, for example: +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: ------ - [gitcvs.users] - someuser = somepassword - otheruser = otherpassword + [gitcvs] + authdb = /etc/cvsserver/passwd + +------ +The format of these files is username followed by the crypted password, +for example: ------ + myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2 + myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./ +------ +You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these +files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C +library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option. + Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example: ------ cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name> |