[Gusdev-gusdev] CVS

[Pjm <pj...@sa...>]

Hi all,

I have just spoken to James Cuff, our sys admin in charge of external CVS. He 
will have a read/write cvs repository setup by Monday for us to try out. If you 
are still keen I will need to pass on your desired user names to him so he can 
set them up on the machine in question (kaka I think). Please email them to me.

This machine lives outside of the firwall and gets backed-up regularly (plans 
for 10 times a day to disk for quick recovery). It has its own password file. 
When your accounts are created I will phone you to say what the passwords are 
and then you can ssh in to run passwd. Port 22 (?) is the only one open - this 
is for ssh. The machine runs only the services needed for CVS and mySQL and is 
monitored automatically. Your shell would be minimal. The machine is locked down 
as hard as the sys admins know how.

In theory someone could gain access as one of us and alter the CVS repository in 
some subtle way and everything would still work. Ensembl have majordomo group 
setup so if anyone commits a change the group gets emailed. You can opt in/out 
of the group.

I think thats it... any comments?

Paul.