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                     27: .Dd May 16, 2004
                     28: .Dt CVSD 8
                     29: .Os
                     30: .Sh NAME
                     31: .Nm cvsd
                     32: .Nd Concurrent Versions System daemon
                     33: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     34: .Nm cvsd
                     35: .Op Fl dfpv
                     36: .Op Fl a Ar aclfile
                     37: .Op Fl r Ar cvsroot
                     38: .Op Fl s Ar sockpath
                     39: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     40: The
                     41: .Nm
                     42: daemon manages access to a CVS repository.
                     43: It provides a much more secure alternative to the traditional client-server
                     44: model commonly used by
                     45: .Xr cvs 1
                     46: through various mechanisms described below.
                     47: .Pp
                     48: On startup,
                     49: .Nm
                     50: spawns a child process that chroots to the CVS repository's root directory.
                     51: Both processes then drop privileges to user and group
                     52: .Ic _cvsd .
                     53: Once this is done, the child process loads the list of ACLs and opens a local
                     54: socket on which it listens for requests.
                     55: The parent process' only purpose is to answer requests for things outside of
                     56: the child's jail.
                     57: .Pp
                     58: In order to enforce ACLs and prevent users from modifying the files in the
                     59: repository directly, all of the files within the repository should be owned
                     60: by the user and group
                     61: .Ic _cvsd
                     62: and should only be writable by the user.
                     63: .Pp
                     64: The options are as follows:
                     65: .Bl -tag -width "-s sockpath"
                     66: .It Fl a Ar aclfile
                     67: Use
                     68: .Ar aclfile
                     69: as the source file for the Access Control Lists to apply on the repository.
                     70: .It Fl d
                     71: Start the server with debugging enabled.
                     72: This option overrides the
                     73: .Fl v
                     74: option.
                     75: .It Fl f
                     76: Stay in foreground instead of performing the usual operations to become
                     77: a daemon.
                     78: This causes all log messages to be printed on standard input or standard
                     79: error, depending on the priority of each message.
                     80: .It Fl p
                     81: On startup, perform a check on the whole contents of the CVS repository to
                     82: check file permissions and ownership, and print warnings for any files or
                     83: directories that do not match the expected permission masks.
                     84: When running with this option,
                     85: .Nm
                     86: will exit with an error message if any of the files have permissions that are
                     87: too open.
                     88: .It Fl r Ar cvsroot
                     89: Use
                     90: .Ar cvsroot
                     91: as the CVS repository's root directory.
                     92: .It Fl s Ar sockpath
                     93: Use the path specified by
                     94: .Ar sockpath
                     95: as the file to bind to for the local socket.
                     96: .It Fl v
                     97: Be verbose.
                     98: .Sh FILES
                     99: .Bl -tag -width /var/run/cvsd.sock -compact
                    100: .It Pa /var/run/cvsd.pid
                    101: Process ID of the currently running
                    102: .Nm .
                    103: .It Pa /var/run/cvsd.sock
                    104: Default listening socket for incoming cvs requests.
                    105: .El
                    106: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    107: .Xr cvs 1 ,
                    108: .Xr rcs 1 ,
                    109: .Xr rcsfile 5 ,
                    110: .Xr cvsacl 5
                    111: .Sh HISTORY
                    112: The
                    113: .Nm
                    114: server appeared as part of the OpenCVS project.
                    115: .Sh AUTHORS
                    116: .An Jean-Francois Brousseau