[darcs-users] Setting up a server

[Daan Leijen]

I realize that, but I was hoping that one could use the "upload" forms
used in web pages. Maybe there is a special web page where a patch
file can be uploaded which is automatically filled in by darcs with the
right options?
 
-- Daan

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From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:daniel.carrera at zmsl.com]
Sent: Fri 2/3/2006 8:24 PM
To: Daan Leijen
Cc: darcs-users at darcs.net
Subject: Re: [darcs-users] Setting up a server



You must have some way to upload files to the server. SSH? FTP? I'd
think that those two would be more romising than using a CGI script.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Daan Leijen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been reading a lot about setting up a server where users can "push" to. Giving
> users read access is easy since one just need to make it readable from the web (the
> http protocol). Unfortunately, it is very complicated to create a writeable repo with
> lots of security issues. Furthermore, most people do not have a dedicated server on
> which they can install specific servers (apache, etc) and tools -- usually a normal
> account is limited to some cgi scripts at best.
> 
> So the question is how to create a darcs repo that only certain users can write to?
> A requirement is that we assume that the owner has no full control over the server.
> Since I feel that this is not possible at the moment, maybe someone has an idea
> on how this could be implemented? The best way of doing this might well be special
> CGI script that can somehow receive patches and apply them -- this solution would
> only require some http server working, and should work for most limited accounts.
> 
> The only problems I see is:
> - how to 'upload' the patch
> - how to authenticate the user
> 
> The advantages are enormous:
> - anyone can setup a fully functional darcs server
> - more cgi scripts can handle html based administration and authentication
> - there are no special accounts necessary on the server side: the normal user account is enough
>   since the cgi script only invokes certain darcs operations. (of course: --no-test should be default).
> 
> Maybe I oversee some inherent limitations, but if it could work, it would be great solution
> to replace dedicated CVS/SVN servers that I now rely on (supplied my IT staff) and I would
> be able to switch to my own darcs server on my own accounts.
> 
> I am very interested in comments,
> All the best,
> -- Daan Leijen.
> 
>
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