How To

Read-Only Repository Access

To make a password authenticated (pserver) repository read-only for some users you have two options, including and excluding.

To grant read-write access to only a predefined group of users, create the CVSROOT/writers file in the repository and put each user name who should have write access on a new line (each line must be terminated by a line separator).

To set only a few users' access rights to read-only, create the CVSROOT/readers file in the repository and put each user name who should only have read-only access on a new line (each line must be terminated by a line separator).

If both files are present, the CVSROOT/readers file is ignored.