31.6. Limiting User Access

This section explains how to configure the CVS server to limit which users are allowed to write to the repository. This can be useful if you want to give anyone on the Internet access to your source code. For example, if you are hosting an open-source project. A user with no password but read-only access could be created for anyone in the world to log in as, while developers log in with password-protected accounts that have full read-write privileges.

To restrict write access to your server, follow these steps:

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On the module's main page, click on the User Access Control icon. This will take you to a form listing users who currently have read and write access.
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To give read-only access to only a few users and read-write ...

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