Annotation of src/usr.bin/cvs/cvsd.8, Revision 1.2
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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
1.2 ! jfb 58: .Nm
! 59: provides a way to apply Access Control Lists on the modules based on
! 60: operation, path, tags and users.
1.1 jfb 61: In order to enforce ACLs and prevent users from modifying the files in the
62: repository directly, all of the files within the repository should be owned
63: by the user and group
64: .Ic _cvsd
65: and should only be writable by the user.
66: .Pp
67: The options are as follows:
68: .Bl -tag -width "-s sockpath"
69: .It Fl a Ar aclfile
70: Use
71: .Ar aclfile
72: as the source file for the Access Control Lists to apply on the repository.
73: .It Fl d
74: Start the server with debugging enabled.
75: This option overrides the
76: .Fl v
77: option.
78: .It Fl f
79: Stay in foreground instead of performing the usual operations to become
80: a daemon.
81: This causes all log messages to be printed on standard input or standard
82: error, depending on the priority of each message.
83: .It Fl p
84: On startup, perform a check on the whole contents of the CVS repository to
85: check file permissions and ownership, and print warnings for any files or
86: directories that do not match the expected permission masks.
87: When running with this option,
88: .Nm
89: will exit with an error message if any of the files have permissions that are
90: too open.
91: .It Fl r Ar cvsroot
92: Use
93: .Ar cvsroot
94: as the CVS repository's root directory.
95: .It Fl s Ar sockpath
96: Use the path specified by
97: .Ar sockpath
98: as the file to bind to for the local socket.
99: .It Fl v
100: Be verbose.
101: .Sh FILES
102: .Bl -tag -width /var/run/cvsd.sock -compact
1.2 ! jfb 103: .It Pa /etc/cvsd.conf
! 104: Standard configuration file for the server.
1.1 jfb 105: .It Pa /var/run/cvsd.pid
106: Process ID of the currently running
107: .Nm .
108: .It Pa /var/run/cvsd.sock
109: Default listening socket for incoming cvs requests.
110: .El
111: .Sh SEE ALSO
112: .Xr cvs 1 ,
113: .Xr rcs 1 ,
1.2 ! jfb 114: .Xr cvsd.conf 5 ,
! 115: .Xr rcsfile 5
1.1 jfb 116: .Sh HISTORY
117: The
118: .Nm
119: server appeared as part of the OpenCVS project.
120: .Sh AUTHORS
121: .An Jean-Francois Brousseau