NAME

cvsadmin - administrate users of a CVS repository

SYNOPSIS

cvsadmin [options] [action] [parameters]

DESCRIPTION

cvsadmin is a program to administer users of a CVS repository easily. You can use it to administer a local or a remote repository (see the -c option). There can be at most one option per invocation, since there are no way to distinguish between action name and parameters).

Options modify general how cvsadmin works generally.

c: This tells cvsadmin to use cvs(1) to checkout the files. This allows you to administer a remote repository, to use SSH, etc. (just like your normal CVS setup works)
C: This tells cvsadmin to accept pre-encrypted hashes instead of plain-text passwords when changing password, adding users, etc. This is good for administrators that don't want to see their users' passwords.
h: Get some help about cvsadmin usage
d <repository>: Tells cvsadmin what CVS repository location to use. By default, it uses $CVSROOT, and if it's not set, defaults to :local:/usr/local/cvsroot
v: Shows cvsadmin 's version

Actions can be any of :

add	- Add users, parameters are user names
list	- List users, no parameters
del	- Delete users, parameters are user names
email - Change users' email addresses, parameters are user names
rename  - Rename users, parameters are pairs of old/new usernames
misc - Do misc change on a user's account, parameters are user names
sys - Change users' system username, parameters are usernames
pass - Change users' passwords, parameters are usernames

EXAMPLES

Here is a sample session that will give you a good idea about how cvsadmin works.

% cvsadmin list
No users in database
Can't get users list
% cvsadmin add foo
User foo
Password? [entering password, not shown on screen]
System user? [] foouser
Email address? foo@foo.com
% cvsadmin list
foo<foo@foo.com>: foouser on sys
% cvsadmin email foo
New email for foo? foo@bar.com
% cvsadmin list
foo<foo@bar.com>: foouser on sys
% cvsadmin sys foo
New system user for foo? [foouser] ? blah
% cvsadmin list
foo<foo@bar.com>: blah on sys
% cvsadmin misc foo
User foo
Password? [nothing entered, keep current]
System user? [blah] [nothing entered, keep current]
Email address? [foo@bar.com] foo@newbar.com
% cvsadmin list
foo<foo@newbar.com>: blah on sys

AUTHOR

Vincent Labrecque <limitln@cooptel.qc.ca>