Linux CVS Access Control

Question

What is the best approach to implement access control on CVS repositories hosted on a Linux server? The goal is to prevent accidental deletion of modules by developers. The developers should be able to do all other CVS activities.

Answer 1

CVSACL is a patch for CVS. It adds two new subcommands (acl & racl) to cvs for access control list management.

http://cvsacl.sourceforge.net/

Answer 2

Use SSH access: howto cvs-ssh, other howto

It also looks like you're trying to give them a shell? And access to a CVS repository filesystem? If yes, then it isn't necessary. They do not need access to repo filesystem to do all standard CVS activities.

Answer 3

mount ro? No but seriously, if you prevent module deletion, there is still nothing preventing them from deleting the content of the module, so I don't really understand the question. What should they be able to do precisely?